By Henrik Hoeg Muller, Alex Klinge
This quantity brings jointly students of various theoretical persuasions who all percentage an curiosity in shooting the function that nominal selection and reference project play within the advanced interaction among proposal, language and verbal exchange. The articles should be divided approximately into 5 major parts of outrage: the conceptual point of selection; the emergence and serve as of articles; their semantic contribution to nominal interpretation; the morphology and syntax of determiners; and the interaction and contrasts among articles, demonstratives and possessives. hence, linguistic and philosophical matters within the topic box of nominal selection are addressed in any respect interface degrees among morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics. This quantity exhibits that diverse theoretical frameworks can be introduced fruitfully jointly within the attempt to formulate new analyses of recognized difficulties, but additionally to elevate new questions and aspect to new components that may end up fascinating issues for destiny examine either in practical and formal paradigms.
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Since the governed phrase has no definite article (but an indefinite one here symbolised by Q for quantifier; see further section 3. below), a definite article has to be introduced – in much the same way as the preposed Danish genitive induces the definite inflection of an adjective (but no definite article). This indicates that the genitive phrase occupies the topmost determiner position as a definite article, and that that fact has to “materialise” in the shape of a non-inflectional definite article.
In Spanish for instance, the article is retained in the second conjunct: (6) la casa de mis padres y la ___ de mis abuelos ‘the house of my parents and that ___ of my grand-parents’ This indicates a much more pronoun-like status of the Spanish article, a status that is confirmed by other features of Spanish syntax. C. Barcelona supporters to Portuguese player Figo after his change from Barcelona to Real Madrid) ‘We who loved you will forever hate you’ los madrileños gustamos de la noche (Conde 41) ‘we Madrilenes like the night’ no creo que seamos tan distintos los pueblos de Europa (Conde 88) ‘I don’t think that we the peoples of Europe are so different’ The Romance languages thus exhibit an interestingly graded distribution in this respect: (9) Spanish: a.
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