Articles in the World’s Languages / / Laura Becker.
This study provides a systematic overview of articles and article systems in the world’s languages using a sample of 104 languages. Articles can be classified into 10 types according to their referential functions: definite, anaphoric, weak definite, recognitional, indefinite, presentational, exclus...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2021 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2021] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Linguistische Arbeiten ,
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (XX, 441 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Tables
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Articles as a crosslinguistic category
- 3 Referentiality and types of articles
- 4 The distinction between articles and related markers
- 5 Articles in the definite domain
- 6 Articles in the indefinite domain
- 7 Domain-crossing articles
- 8 Articles: crosslinguistic trends and variation
- 9 Article systems
- 10 Conclusions
- Language Index
- Bibliography