Definiteness across languages
Contributors: Pozas Loyo, Julia; Vázquez-Rojas Maldonado, Violeta; Aguilar-Guevara, Ana; Pozas Loyo, Julia; Vázquez-Rojas Maldonado, Violeta
Publisher: Language Science Press
Published: 20190812
Place of publication: Berlin
ISBN-13: 9783961101924
Subjects: Linguistics
Description: Definiteness has been a central topic in theoretical semantics since its modern foundation. However, despite its significance, there has been surprisingly scarce research on its cross-linguistic expression. With the purpose of contributing to filling this gap, the present volume gathers thirteen studies exploiting insights from formal semantics and syntax, typological and language specific studies, and, crucially, semantic fieldwork and cross-linguistic semantics, in order to address the expression and interpretation of definiteness in a diverse group of languages, most of them understudied.
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