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From: Mariëtte Bonenkamp < lot at uu.nl >
Subject: Indefinite Articles and Beyond: Le Bruyn
 

	
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Title: Indefinite Articles and Beyond 
Series Title: LOT dissertation Series  

Publication Year: 2010 
Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke - LOT
	   http://www.lotpublications.nl/
	
Author: Bert Le Bruyn

Paperback: ISBN:  9789460930225 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 22,71


Abstract:

This dissertation challenges the standard view on indefinite articles as 
argument markers and determiners that block bare nominal arguments. It 
argues for a more fine-grained view in which articles are poor in their 
semantics but rich in their pragmatic competition with bare nominals and 
other determiners.

On the basis of new data, both from synchrony and diachrony, historical 
simulations and detailed analyses within formal semantics and pragmatics 
(especially Optimality Theory) it shows how the merits of functionalism can 
be exploited without giving up the formal precision of the generative approach 
to linguistics. On the empirical side, it presents new analyses of Spanish 
unos, French des, bare partitives and the use of Dutch een and English a in 
predicate position.

This dissertation will be of interest to all those working on the semantics, 
pragmatics and/or syntax of DPs, language evolution and/or the interaction 
between semantics and pragmatics. 



Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics
                     Semantics
                     Syntax

Subject Language(s): Dutch (nld)
                     English (eng)
                     French (fra)
                     Spanish (spa)


Written In: English  (eng)
	
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