Crosslinguistic studies on noun phrase structure and reference / / edited by Patricia Cabredo Hofher, Anne Zribi-Hertz.

Crosslinguistic Studies on Noun Phrase Structure and Reference contains 11 studies on the grammar of noun phrases. Part One explores NP-structure and the impact of information structure, countability and number marking on interpretation, using data from Russian, Armenian, Hebrew, Brazilian Portugues...

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Superior document:Syntax and semantics, volume 39
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden : : Brill,, [2014]
©2014
Year of Publication:2014
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Syntax and semantics ; v. 39.
Physical Description:1 online resource (413 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • Information structure and (in)definiteness / Nomi Erteschik-Shir
  • On number and numberlessness in languages with and without articles / Asya Pereltsvaig
  • The cognitive basis of the mass-count distinction : evidence from bare nouns / Edit Doron and Ana Muller
  • The Turkish NP / Zeljko Boskovic and Serkan Sener
  • The morphology, syntax and semantics of definite determiners in Swiss German / Rebekka Studler
  • Reduced definite articles with restrictive relative clauses / Patricia Cabredo Hofherr
  • When determiners abound : implications for the encoding of definiteness / Marika Lekakou and Kriszta Szendroi
  • The semantics and syntax of Japanese adnominal demonstratives / Makoto Kaneko
  • From noun to name : on definiteness marking in modern Martinike / Anne Zribi-Hertz and Loic Jean-Louis
  • Reference resolution in French sign language : the effects of the visuo-gestual modality / Brigitte Garcia and Marie-Anne Sallandre
  • When articles have different meanings : acquiring the expression of genericity in English and Brazilian Portuguese / Tania Ionin, Elaine Grolla, Silvina Montrul and Helade Santos.