book on determiners as functors

[valerio allegranza]

Dear HPSGers,
I'm sending this message because I believe list members
could be interested in the book mentioned below. For more 
information, you may want to have a look at the following
Web page I have prepared:

<http://www.geocities.com/athens/academy/3782/book2007.html>

It offers a slightly broader abstract, the detailed table of 
contents and, above all, a freely downloadable PDF hypertext 
with sort hierarchy, features and constraints from the book.
Best,
Valerio 

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THE SIGNS OF DETERMINATION. 
CONSTRAINT-BASED MODELLING ACROSS LANGUAGES				
by Valerio Allegranza,	
Vol. 16 of SABEST – Saarbrücker Beiträge zur Sprach- und 
Translationswissenschaft, Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main, 2007.
<http://www.peterlang.com>

Book synopsis:
This study presents a comprehensive treatment of determination, 
based on English, Italian and other Germanic or Romance languages. 
Determiners are identified as those dependents of a nominal head 
that determine the type of reference for the Noun Phrase, covering
articles as well as demonstrative, possessive, quantitative, 
cardinal and ordinal determiners. The work also accounts for 
their absence in self-determining nominals, like proper names 
and pronouns. The author's approach is sign-based, as syntactic, 
semantic and pragmatic aspects of words or phrases are treated 
in parallel by a grammar with logical constraints. In particular, 
the Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar originally proposed 
by Carl Pollard and Ivan Sag is revised adopting a notion of 
'functor' which proves ideal for all sorts of determiners.

Contents: 
A contrastive analysis of Germanic and Romance determiners --
Multiple determination -- Determiners as specifiers or adjuncts 
of X-bar Theory -- Functors and determination marking in HPSG  
-- Logical form, definiteness and generalized quantifiers -- 
The lexicalization of quantifier scope.

		(from Peter Lang's Fall 2007 Linguistics book list)

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