1st Edition

The Semantics of Determiners

Edited By Johan Van Der Auwera Copyright 1980
312 Pages
by Routledge

310 Pages
by Routledge

312 Pages
by Routledge

This book is a collection of linguistic and philosophical papers dealing with the semantic problems of determiners. The language under investigation is mostly English, although a few papers deal with French and German, and, to a lesser extent, with Dutch, Polish, Russian and Hebrew. The majority of the contributions focus on the semantics of the definite and indefinite articles, leading into... Read more

1. Any as Universal or Existential? Alice Davison  2. On Surface Definite Articles in English John A. Hawkins  3. Coreference and Interreference in Anaphoric Relations: Grammatical Semantics or Pragmatics? Theo Janssen  4. The Meaning of the English Definite Article Christopher G. Lyons  5. Demonstrations and the I-sayer Herman Parret  6. Definite and Indefinite Generics Frank Platteau  7. Determination with and without Articles Victor Raskin  8. Determiners and the Syntax of Pronominals, Relativisation and Modifier-shift Bob Rigter  9. Opacity and Transparency: A Pragmatic View Sjef Schoorl  10. Linguistic Considerations on Reference Pierre Swiggers  11. Existential Presuppositions and the Choice of Head NP Determiner in English Restrictive Relative Clauses Elżbieta Tabakowska  12. Indefinites, Exemplars and Kinds Willy Van Langendonck

Biography

Johan Van Der Auwera