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 language | English |
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Place of Publication | Newcastle upon Tyne |
Publisher | Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Number of pages | 474 |
ISBN (Print) | 9781443890571 |
Publication status | Published - 2016 |
Subject classification (UKÄ)
- Languages and Literature
Free keywords
- Definiteness Effects
- Existential sentences
- diachronic change
- language acquisition
- typology