Table of contents

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Contributors vii
4. The editors ix
5. Introduction xi
6. Determiners and definiteness: Functional semantics and structural differentiation 1
7. Articles, definite and indefinite 27
8. Typological correlations in nominal determination in Romance 45
9. A stranger in the house: The French article de 65
10. Determination in endocentric and exocentric languages: With evidence primarily from Danish and Italian 79
11. Bare predicate nominals in Romance languages 101
12. Definiteness effect and the role of the coda in existential constructions 131
13. Determination of N2 modifiers in Spanish nominal syntagmatic compounds 163
14. Reference to individuals, person, and the variety of mapping parameters 189
15. English th - forms 213
16. Stating the case for þ - root and hw - root determiners 233
17. On certain differences between noun phrases and clauses 265
18. Determination, nominalisation and conceptual processing 287
19. The semantics and pragmatics of the possessive determiner 309
20. Reference, determiners and descriptive content 337
21. Index 365