Determiners: Universals and variation (Linguistik by Jila Ghomeshi, Ileana Paul, Martina Wiltschko

By Jila Ghomeshi, Ileana Paul, Martina Wiltschko

This quantity brings jointly contemporary paintings at the formal and interpretational houses of determiners throughout a number of typologically and geographically unrelated languages. It seeks to reply to the middle query of contemporary linguistic conception: Which homes of languages are common and that are variable? In fresh theorizing, a lot of language edition is argued to stem from variations within the houses of beneficial properties linked to useful heads. As such, this quantity might be seen as a case learn of 1 such classification: the determiner (D). The contributions all examine the prestige of D as a language common by means of reading the language-specific syntactic and semantic homes linked to this type. This quantity will attract researchers and scholars in syntax and semantics, in addition to to people who have extra a particular curiosity in determiners and noun words.

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Sieh-st du das Bild. ’ (the painting is close) (the painting is farther away) (the location of the painting is irrelevant) Further evidence that the specification for location is indeed an adjoined modifier in German stems from the fact that, in colloquial German, where demonstratives are rarely used, location is specified by an adjoined locative (deictic) particle: hier (‘here’) or dort (‘there’), as illustrated in (60). (60) German: a. Der Mann hier schläft. ’ b. Der Mann dort schläft. ’ Having established that location in German is a modifying feature, we now turn to Halkomelem.

Nothing in our analysis would require the two properties to be correlated. And there is indeed evidence to the effect that these two properties are independent of each other. The evidence comes from another Salish language, namely Lillooet (Northern Interior Salish). 13 (48) Lillooet: a. ti sk’úk’wmi7ta d child ‘the/a child’ b. pl c. pl bird ‘the/some birds’ d. pl ‘the/some birds’ Thus in Lillooet there is no truly unmarked determiner. This suggests that plural marking on determiners in Lillooet is determined by properties of the discourse referent (like in Halkomelem), but at the same time it is an inherent head feature that requires valuation (like in German): (49) D Lillooet: context → number [number: ] [number: ] N D This establishes that the two ways in which features can differ in terms of their distribution are indeed independent of each other, as predicted by the analysis.

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