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dc.contributor.authorGuillemin, Diana
dc.date.accessioned2018-12-12T23:22:49Z
dc.date.available2018-12-12T23:22:49Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.identifier.issn1710-1115
dc.identifier.doi10.1017/S0008413100026220
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/99502
dc.description.abstractThis 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.peerreviewedYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherUniversity of Toronto Press, Journals Division
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom259
dc.relation.ispartofpageto288
dc.relation.ispartofissue3
dc.relation.ispartofjournalCanadian Journal of Linguistics
dc.relation.ispartofvolume60
dc.subject.fieldofresearchLinguistic Structures (incl. Grammar, Phonology, Lexicon, Semantics)
dc.subject.fieldofresearchCognitive Sciences
dc.subject.fieldofresearchLinguistics
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode200408
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode1702
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode2004
dc.titleOf nouns, and kinds, and properties, and why one D is null or not
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
dc.description.versionAccepted Manuscript (AM)
gro.facultyArts, 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.
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gro.griffith.authorGuillemin, Diana M.


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