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Definiteness and Indefiniteness A Study in Reference and Grammaticality Prediction
By John Hawkins
Copyright 1978
316 Pages
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Routledge
320 Pages
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Routledge
320 Pages
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Routledge
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First published in 1988, this book is concerned with the definite and indefinite articles in English. It provides an integrated pragmatic-semantic theory of definite and indefinite reference, on the basis of which, many co-occurance restrictions between articles and non-modifiers are explained.
At the general theoretical level, the book looks at the role of semantics in the prediction of all... Read more
Preface
Introduction
1. Meaning and Grammaticality Prediction in Generative Grammar
2. Syntactic and Semantic Causes of Ungrammaticality
3. The Referential Meaning of Definiteness
4. The Semantic Contrast between Definiteness and Indefiniteness
5. Ungrammaticalities Arising from the Semantic Contrast between Definiteness and Indefiniteness
6. Conclusions and Hypotheses for the Theory of Grammar
Notes
References
Index
Biography
John Hawkins
