On the grammar of names
- [earlier and shorter version of Anderson, John M. 2004. On the grammatical status of names. Language 80, 435-474.]
- The paper focuses on the relatively neglected grammar (including the morphosyntax) of names and suggests that names belong, universally, with pronouns and determiners, to a category of determinative. The behaviour of names as vocatives and in predications of nomination suggests that they are, unlike pronouns and determiners, inherently neither definite nor indefinite. Moreover in such circumstances names do not function as regular arguments of the predicator: they are 'extra-sentential' or appositive.
- 62 pages, 648kb
Autor:
Anderson, John M.
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2 002
Bereich:
NG
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