dc.contributor.author | Guillemin, Diana | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-12-12T23:22:49Z | |
dc.date.available | 2018-12-12T23:22:49Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2016 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1710-1115 | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1017/S0008413100026220 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10072/99502 | |
dc.description.abstract | This paper assumes that the basic denotation of nouns can be that of kind or property and that the determiner system of a language is a direct consequence of this cross-linguistic variation. An analysis of how definiteness and specificity are marked across three languages with different determiner systems, namely, English, French and Mauritian Creole (MC), provides evidence of the co-relation between noun denotation and determiner system. Languages with kind denoting nouns (English and MC) admit bare nominal arguments, which are barred in French, whose nouns denote properties. However, English and MC differ in that English has an overt definite article, which is a lacking in MC. This null element requires licensing by an overt specificity marker in some syntactic environments. The English and MC definite articles are analyzed as operators that quantify over sets of kind denoting nouns, and they serve a different function from the French definite article, which is specified for number and selects properties. | |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Yes | |
dc.language | English | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.publisher | University of Toronto Press, Journals Division | |
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom | 259 | |
dc.relation.ispartofpageto | 288 | |
dc.relation.ispartofissue | 3 | |
dc.relation.ispartofjournal | Canadian Journal of Linguistics | |
dc.relation.ispartofvolume | 60 | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearch | Linguistic Structures (incl. Grammar, Phonology, Lexicon, Semantics) | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearch | Cognitive Sciences | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearch | Linguistics | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode | 200408 | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode | 1702 | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode | 2004 | |
dc.title | Of nouns, and kinds, and properties, and why one D is null or not | |
dc.type | Journal article | |
dc.type.description | C1 - Articles | |
dc.type.code | C - Journal Articles | |
dc.description.version | Accepted Manuscript (AM) | |
gro.faculty | Arts, Education & Law Group, School of Languages and Linguistics | |
gro.rights.copyright | © 2016 Cambridge University Press. This is the author-manuscript version of this paper. Reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. Please refer to the journal's website for access to the definitive, published version. | |
gro.hasfulltext | Full Text | |
gro.griffith.author | Guillemin, Diana M. | |