It has become increasingly clear since Longobardi (1994, 2003) that certain languages (e.g.Romance, but also Classical and Modern Greek, Bulgarian, Arabic (Fassi-Fehri 2003)…;henceforth 'strong D' languages) exhibit overt association of the referential content of nouns(proper names and referential generics) with D (either by overt N-to-D raising, e.g. of propernames, or by an arguably expletive article), others do not (e.g. English, but also probably therest of Germanic, Celtic…; 'weak D' languages). From a number of scattered observation itcan be suspected that a roughly analogous phenomenon arises with respect to anothersemantic property of DPs, namely definiteness: in certain constructions of some languages,but crucially not in the closely comparable constructions of others, the definite reading ofnominal arguments seems to depend on the overt association of some morphosyntacticmaterial with D (fronting to D° or SpecD).

Reference and Definiteness / Guardiano, Cristina; G., Longobardi. - ELETTRONICO. - 1:(2005), pp. 1-2. (Intervento presentato al convegno 15° Coloquio de Gramàtica Generativa tenutosi a University of Barcelona nel April 4-6, 2005).

Reference and Definiteness

GUARDIANO, Cristina;
2005

Abstract

It has become increasingly clear since Longobardi (1994, 2003) that certain languages (e.g.Romance, but also Classical and Modern Greek, Bulgarian, Arabic (Fassi-Fehri 2003)…;henceforth 'strong D' languages) exhibit overt association of the referential content of nouns(proper names and referential generics) with D (either by overt N-to-D raising, e.g. of propernames, or by an arguably expletive article), others do not (e.g. English, but also probably therest of Germanic, Celtic…; 'weak D' languages). From a number of scattered observation itcan be suspected that a roughly analogous phenomenon arises with respect to anothersemantic property of DPs, namely definiteness: in certain constructions of some languages,but crucially not in the closely comparable constructions of others, the definite reading ofnominal arguments seems to depend on the overt association of some morphosyntacticmaterial with D (fronting to D° or SpecD).
2005
15° Coloquio de Gramàtica Generativa
University of Barcelona
April 4-6, 2005
Guardiano, Cristina; G., Longobardi
Reference and Definiteness / Guardiano, Cristina; G., Longobardi. - ELETTRONICO. - 1:(2005), pp. 1-2. (Intervento presentato al convegno 15° Coloquio de Gramàtica Generativa tenutosi a University of Barcelona nel April 4-6, 2005).
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