Syntax and Semantics of a Determiner System A case study of Mauritian creole

Syntax and Semantics of a Determiner System A case study of Mauritian creole

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Diana Guillemin, Guillemin
John Benjamins Publishing Company
EAN: 9789027284709
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Within the framework of Chomsky's Minimalism and Formal Semantics, this work documents the development of the Mauritian Creole (MC) determiner system from the mid 18th century to the present. Guillemin proposes that the loss of the French quantificational determiners, which agglutinated to nouns, resulted in the occurrence of bare nouns in argument positions. This triggered a shift in noun denotation, from predicative in French to argumental in MC, and accounts for the very different determiner systems of the creole and its lexifier. MC nouns are lexically stored as Kind denoting terms, that share some of the distributional properties of English bare plurals. New MC determiners are analyzed as 'type shifting operators' that shift Kinds into predicates, and serve to establish the referential properties of noun phrases. The analysis provides evidence for the universality of semantic features like Definiteness and Specificity, and the mapping of their form and function.
EAN 9789027284709
ISBN 9027284709
Typ produktu Ebook
Vydavateľ John Benjamins Publishing Company
Dátum vydania 16. novembra 2011
Stránky 328
Jazyk English
Autori Diana Guillemin, Guillemin
Séria Creole Language Library