Determiners

This volume brings together recent work on the formal and interpretational properties of determiners across a variety of typologically and geographically unrelated languages. It seeks to answer the core question of modern linguistic theory: Which properties of languages are universal and which are variable? In recent theorizing, much of language variation is argued to stem from differences in the properties of features associated with functional heads. As such, this volume can be viewed as a case study of one such category: the determiner (D). The contributions all investigate the status of D as a language universal by examining the language-specific syntactic and semantic properties associated with this category. This volume will appeal to researchers and students in syntax and semantics, as well as to those who have more a specific interest in determiners and noun phrases.

Rostyslav Bilous, University of Toronto, in Revue canadienne de linguistique / Canadian Journal of Linguistics 56(1): 128–130, 2011:
This volume represents a wonderful contribution to our understanding of the role and nature of determiners in a crosslinguistic perspective, and is undoubtedly a valuable handbook for all those who are interested in contributing to the solution of the issues related to the category in question.