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041			_aeng
050			_aR P299.D43 _bL96
100			_aLyons, Christopher _913034
245	1	0	_aDefiniteness / _cChristopher Lyons
250			_a1a ed.
260			_aEUA : _bCambridge, _c1999
300			_a380 p. ; _c15 x 22.5 cm
490			_aCambridge textbooks in linguistics
520			_aThis textbook investigates definiteness both from a comparative and a theoretical point of viwe, showing how languages express definiteness and what definiteness is. It surveys a large number of languages to discover the range of variation in relation to definiteness and related gramatical phenomena: demonstratives, possesives, personal pronouns. It outlines work done on the nature of definiteness in semantics, pragmatics and syntax, and develops an account on which definiteness is a grammatical category represented in syntax as a functional head (the widely discussed D). Consideration is also given to the origins and evolution of definite articles in the light of the comparative and theoretical findings. Among the claims advanced are that definiteness does not occur in all languages though the pragmatic concept which it grammaticalizes probably does, that many languages have definiteness in their pronoun system but not elsewhere, that definiteness is not inherent in possessives, and that definiteness is to be assimilated to the grammatical category of person.
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