Crosslinguistic Studies on Noun Phrase Structure and Reference: (39 Syntax and Semantics)

Crosslinguistic Studies on Noun Phrase Structure and Reference contains 11 studies on the grammar of noun phrases. Part One explores NP-structure and the impact of information structure, countability and number marking on interpretation, using data from Russian, Armenian, Hebrew, Brazilian Portuguese, Karitiana, Turkish, English, Catalan and Danish. Part Two examines language specific definiteness marking strategies in spoken and signed languages—differentiated definiteness marking in Germanic, double definiteness in Greek, adnominal demonstratives in Japanese, ‘weak’ definiteness in Martiniké and the special referring options made avilable by signing. Part Three examines the second-language acquisition of genericity in English, Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese. This volume will be of interest to researchers and students in syntax, formal semantics, and language acquisition. Contributors include: Željko Bošković, Patricia Cabredo Hofherr, Edit Doron, Nomi Erteschik Shir, Brigitte Garcia, Elaine Grolla, Tania Ionin, Loïc Jean-Louis, Makoto Kaneko, Marika Lekakou, Silvina Montrul, Ana Müller, Asya Pereltsvaig, Marie-Anne Sallandre, Helade Santos, Serkan Şener, Rebekka Studler, Kriszta Szendröi, Anne Zribi-Hertz.

Table of Contents:
Contents Acknowledgements Biographies Introduction Patricia Cabredo Hofherr and Anne Zribi-Hertz part 1: Noun Phrase Syntax and Interpretation: In Search of Crosslinguistic Regularities Information Structure and (In)definiteness Nomi Erteschik-Shir On Number and Numberlessness in Languages with and without Articles Asya Pereltsvaig The Cognitive Basis of the Mass-Count Distinction: Evidence from Bare Nouns Edit Doron and Ana Müller The Turkish NP Željko Bošković and Serkan Şener part 2: Definiteness and Definiteness Markers across Languages The Morphology, Syntax and Semantics of Definite Determiners in Swiss German Rebekka Studler Reduced Definite Articles with Restrictive Relative Clauses Patricia Cabredo Hofherr When Determiners Abound: Implications for the Encoding of Definiteness Marika Lekakou and Kriszta Szendrői The Semantics and Syntax of Japanese Adnominal Demonstratives Makoto Kaneko From Noun to Name: On Definiteness Marking in Modern Martinikè Anne Zribi-Hertz and Loïc Jean-Louis Reference Resolution in French Sign Language: The Effects of the Visuo-Gestual Modality Brigitte Garcia and Marie-Anne Sallandre part 3: Noun Phrase Interpretation and Second-Language Acquisition When Articles Have Different Meanings: Acquiring the Expression of Genericity in English and Brazilian Portuguese Tania Ionin, Elaine Grolla, Silvina Montrul and Hélade Santos Index

About the Author :
Patricia Cabredo Hofherr is a researcher at the CNRS in Paris. She has published on referential impersonal pronouns, passives, adjectives and preposition-determiner contractions and co-edited Verbal plurality and distributivity (2012).     Anne Zribi-Hertz is Professor of French and comparative syntax at Université Paris 8. She has written or (co-)edited several books and written many articles on French, English, and various other languages including Attie, Korean, Wolof, and French-based creoles. Contributors include: Željko Bošković, Patricia Cabredo Hofherr, Edit Doron, Nomi Erteschik Shir, Brigitte Garcia, Elaine Grolla, Tania Ionin, Loïc Jean-Louis, Makoto Kaneko, Marika Lekakou, Silvina Montrul, Ana Müller, Asya Pereltsvaig, Marie-Anne Sallandre, Helade Santos, Serkan Şener, Rebekka Studler, Kriszta Szendröi, Anne Zribi-Hertz.