30.3150, Books: Definiteness across languages: Aguilar-Guevara, Pozas Loyo, Vázquez-Rojas Maldonado (eds.)

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Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2019 10:15:36
From: Sebastian Nordhoff [Sebastian.Nordhoff at langsci-press.org]
Subject: Definiteness across languages: Aguilar-Guevara, Pozas Loyo, Vázquez-Rojas Maldonado (eds.)

 


Title: Definiteness across languages 
Series Title: Studies in Diversity Linguistics  

Publication Year: 2019 
Publisher: Language Science Press
	   http://langsci-press.org
	

Book URL: http://www.langsci-press.org/catalog/book/227 


Editor: Ana Aguilar-Guevara
Editor: Julia Pozas Loyo
Editor: Violeta Vázquez-Rojas Maldonado

Electronic: ISBN:  9783961101924 Pages: 500 Price: Europe EURO 0 Comment: Open Access


Abstract:

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. The papers presented in this volume aim to establish a dialogue
between theory and data in order to answer the following questions: What
formal strategies do natural languages employ to encode definiteness? What are
the possible meanings associated to this notion across languages? Are there
different types of definite reference? Which other functions (besides marking
definite reference) are associated with definite descriptions? Each of the
papers contained in this volume addresses at least one of these questions and,
in doing so, they aim to enrich our understanding of definiteness.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Semantics


Written In: English  (eng)

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