Definiteness and Indefiniteness

Definiteness and Indefiniteness
Author :
Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 317
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781317419570
ISBN-13 : 131741957X
Rating : 4/5 (57X Downloads)

Book Synopsis Definiteness and Indefiniteness by : John Hawkins

Download or read book Definiteness and Indefiniteness written by John Hawkins and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-07-03 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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, this book looks at the role of semantics in the prediction of all and only the grammatical sentences of a language. A generalisation is proposed uniting semantic oppositions underlying ungrammaticality with syntactic oppositions between conditions of application on transformational generative rules. A procedure is suggested for distinguishing semantic from syntactic causes of ungrammaticality. At a more particular level, the book explores the nature of reference. It examines an important selection of subjects such as the contrast between definiteness and indefiniteness, the relationship between definite and demonstrative reference, and the relationship between pragmatic and logical aspects of determining meaning.


Definiteness and Indefiniteness Related Books

Definiteness and Indefiniteness
Language: en
Pages: 317
Authors: John Hawkins
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-07-03 - Publisher: Routledge

GET EBOOK

First published in 1988, this book is concerned with the definite and indefinite articles in English. It provides an integrated pragmatic-semantic theory of def
Definiteness and Indefiniteness
Language: en
Pages: 298
Authors: John A. Hawkins
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-07-03 - Publisher: Routledge

GET EBOOK

First published in 1988, this book is concerned with the definite and indefinite articles in English. It provides an integrated pragmatic-semantic theory of def
The Representation of (in)definiteness
Language: en
Pages: 374
Authors: Eric J. Reuland
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 1987 - Publisher: MIT Press

GET EBOOK

The Representation of(In)definiteness collects the most important current research, reflecting a wide range of approaches, on a central theoretical issue in lin
Sentence and Discourse
Language: en
Pages: 333
Authors: Jacqueline Guéron
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-10-29 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

GET EBOOK

This book looks at the relationship between the structure of the sentence and the organization of discourse. While a sentence obeys specific grammatical rules,
Definiteness
Language: en
Pages: 408
Authors: Christopher Lyons
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999-03-13 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

GET EBOOK

This 1999 textbook investigates definiteness both from a comparative and a theoretical point of view, showing how languages express definiteness and what defini