Table of Contents

 

 

 

Foreword

   1 Introducing Determination

1.1 Preamble

1.2 Empirical coverage: a case study

1.2.1 The determiners of English

1.2.2 Parts of speech

1.2.2.1 Against 'Q(P)'

1.2.2.2 Against 'Det'

1.3 The NP tradition revisited

1.3.1 Determiners, pronouns and 'Ø-nouns'

1.3.2 Head hunting: against the DP Hypothesis

1.3.3 The case for genitive case

1.4 Conclusions

   2 Meaning and Multilingual Data

2.1 Preamble

2.2 Methodology for semantic notions

2.2.1 On denotation and reference

2.2.2 The interdisciplinary scenario

2.3 Insights from a contrastive analysis

2.3.1 Articles

2.3.1.1 Definite vs. indefinite

2.3.1.2 Plural, uncountables, partitive article

2.3.2 Demonstratives

2.3.3 Possessives

2.3.4 Quantitatives

2.3.4.1 The lexical field of quantity/amount

2.3.4.2 Quantitatives across languages

2.3.5 Cardinals

2.3.6 Ordinals

2.4 Conclusions

   3 Basic Semantic Modelling

3.1 Preamble

3.2 Logical background

3.2.1 Logical form and definiteness conditions

3.2.2 Generalized Quantifier Theory

3.2.2.1 Compositional NP interpretation

3.2.2.2 Semantic determiners and related issues

3.3 Towards feature-theoretic semantics

3.3.1 Quantification and semantics in HPSG

3.3.2 Semantic features of determination

3.3.2.1 On the range of reference

3.3.2.2 Definiteness revisited

3.4 Conclusions

   4 HPSG and the Noun Phrase

4.1 Preamble

4.2 From X-bar Theory to HPSG

4.2.1 Phrase structure patterns

4.2.2 Lexical selection of dependents

4.3 A cross-linguistic NP analysis

4.3.1 Determiners as specifiers or adjuncts

4.3.1.1 On multiple determination

4.3.1.2 Lexical selection of heads

4.3.2 Plurals between semantics and syntax

4.4 Conclusions

   5 Extended Formal Treatment

5.1 Preamble

5.2 The syntactic framework

5.2.1 Phrase structure constraints in HPSG

5.2.2 Functors for a 'construction theory'

5.2.3 The marking system of determination

5.3 On the syntax-semantics interface

5.3.1 A lexicalist account of quantifier scope

5.3.2 The proper treatment of proper names

5.3.2.1 Problems with individual terms

5.3.2.2 Naming, quantification and indexicality

5.4 Conclusions

   Bibliography


 

From: The Signs of Determination. Constraint-based Modelling Across Languages   by V. Allegranza
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