Definite meaning and definite marking
- We look at definite marking in Esperanto, Papiamentu, and Yiddish considering three semantically definite contexts: the referential use of proper names and unique nouns, as well as anaphoric definites. We argue for a three-dimensional analysis of definiteness: an individual denotation, an existence presupposition, and a uniqueness conventional implicature. We present an HPSG encoding of this system and model the central aspects of the definite marking systems of our three object languages.
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| Author: | Manfred SailerORCiDGND, Assif Am-DavidORCiDGND |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-734823 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.21248/hpsg.2016.33 |
| ISSN: | 1535-1793 |
| Parent Title (English): | Proceedings of the ... International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG) |
| Publisher: | CSLI Publications |
| Place of publication: | Stanford, CA |
| Document Type: | Conference Proceeding |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2016/12/16 |
| Year of first Publication: | 2016 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Contributing Corporation: | Joint Conference on Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar and Lexical Functional (2016 : Warschau) |
| Release Date: | 2024/09/13 |
| GND Keyword: | Esperanto; Definitheit; Jiddisch; Papiamento |
| Volume: | 23.2016 |
| Page Number: | 21 |
| First Page: | 641 |
| Last Page: | 661 |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 4 Sprache / 40 Sprache / 400 Sprache |
| 4 Sprache / 41 Linguistik / 410 Linguistik | |
| Sammlungen: | Linguistik |
| Linguistik-Klassifikation: | Linguistik-Klassifikation: Semantik / Semantics |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - CC BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International |
