Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Part 1. Synchrony – and its implications for diachrony
6. Discourse binding: DP and pronouns in German, Dutch, and English 21
7. Gender, number, and indefinite articles: About the 'typological inconsistency' of Italian 49
8. Covert patterns of definiteness/indefiniteness and aspectuality in Old Icelandic, Gothic, and Old High German 73
9. The definite article in Indo-European: Emergence of a new grammatical category? 103
10. 'No' changes: On the history of German indefinite determiners in the scope of negation 141
11. Part 2. Synchrony – ontological and typological characteristics
12. The functional range of bare singular count nouns in English 171
13. The definite article in non-specific object noun phrases: Comparing French and Italian 189
14. Early functions of definite determiners and DPs in German first language acquisition 215
15. Part 3. Diachrony – universally unified characteristics?
16. The discourse-functional crystallization of DP from the original demonstrative 241
17. Determinerless noun phrases in Old Romance passives 257
18. On the structure and development of nominal phrases in Norwegian 287
19. The emergence of DP from a perspective of ontogeny and phylogeny: Correlation between DP, TP and aspect in Old English and first language acquisition 311
20. Demonstratives and possessives: From Old English to present-day English 339
21. Index 363