John A Hawkins

Definiteness and Indefiniteness

A Study in Reference and Grammaticality Prediction

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 316
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Februar 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 445g
• ISBN-13: 9781138919334
• ISBN-10: 1138919330
• Artikelnr.: 57057917

Autorenporträt

John Hawkins

Inhaltsangabe

Preface; Introduction 1. Meaning and Grammaticality Prediction in
Generative Grammar 2. Syntactic and Semantic Causes of Ungrammaticality 3.
The Referential Meaning of Definiteness 4. The Semantic Contrast between
Definiteness and Indefiniteness 5. Ungrammaticalities Arising from the
Semantic Contrast between Definiteness and Indefiniteness 6. Conclusions
and Hypotheses for the Theory of Grammar; Notes; References; Index