Definiteness Effects: Bilingual, typological and diachronic variation

Susann Fischer (Editor), Tanja Kupisch (Editor), Esther Rinke (Editor)

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Abstract

This volume explores in detail the empirical and conceptual content of the definiteness effect in grammar. It brings together a variety of relevant observations from a typological, diachronic and a bilingual/second language acquisition perspective, and provides a general overview of different approaches concerned with the syntactic, morphological, semantic, and pragmatic properties of the Definiteness Effect in a series of European and non-European languages.
Original languageEnglish
Place of PublicationNewcastle upon Tyne
PublisherCambridge Scholars Publishing
Number of pages474
ISBN (Print)9781443890571
Publication statusPublished - 2016

Subject classification (UKÄ)

  • Languages and Literature

Free keywords

  • Definiteness Effects
  • Existential sentences
  • diachronic change
  • language acquisition
  • typology

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