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Different Kinds of Specificity Across Languages

This anthology of papers analyzes a range of specificity markers found in natural languages. It reflects the fact that despite intensive research into these markers, the vast differences between the markers across languages and even within single languages have been less acknowledged. Commonly regar...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Ebert, Cornelia (Editor), Hinterwimmer, Stefan (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 2013, 2013
Edition:1st ed. 2013
Series:Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy
Subjects:
Syntax
Philosophy Of Language
Language And Languages / Philosophy
Comparative Linguistics
Semiotics
Grammar, Comparative And General / Syntax
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction by Cornelia Ebert and Stefan Hinterwimmer
  • Specificity Markers and Nominal Exclamatives in French by Fabienne Martin
  •  The Interpretation of the German Specificity Markers bestimmt and gewiss by Christian Ebert, Cornelia Ebert and Stefan Hinterwimmer
  • Pragmatic Variation among Specificity Markers by Tania Ionin
  • Certain Presuppositions and some Intermediate Readings, and Vice Versa by Igor Yanovich
  • Exceptional Scope: The Case of Spanish by Luis Alonso-Ovalle and Paula Menéndez-Benito
  • The Distribution of two Indefinite Articles – The Case of Uzbek by Klaus von Heusinger and Udo Klein
  • Scenarios of Equivalence – The Case of quelque by Jacques Jayez and Lucia M. Tovena

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