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dc.contributor.author | Gatt, Albert | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-10-05T09:57:29Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2017-10-05T09:57:29Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2017 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Gatt, A. (2017). Definiteness agreement and the pragmatics of reference in the Maltese NP. STUF - Language Typology and Universals, 1-36. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.issn | 18678319 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 21967148 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar//handle/123456789/22282 | - |
dc.description.abstract | Maltese noun phrases exhibit a form of ‘definiteness agreement’ between head noun and modifier. When the noun is definite, an adjectival modifier is often overtly marked as definite as well. However, the status of this phenomenon as a case of true morphosyntactic agreement has been disputed, given its apparent optionality. Not all definite nps have modifiers which are overtly marked as definite. Some authors have argued that definiteness marking on the adjective is in fact pragmatically licensed. The present paper presents a corpus-based study of the distribution of adjectives with and without definite marking, and then tests the pragmatic licensing claim through a production study. Speakers were found to be more likely to use definite adjectives in referential noun phrases when the adjectives had a specifically contrastive function. This result is discussed in the context of both theoretical and psycholinguistic work on the pragmatics of referentiality. | en_GB |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH | en_GB |
dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | en_GB |
dc.subject | Reference (Linguistics) | en_GB |
dc.subject | Natural language processing (Computer science) | en_GB |
dc.subject | Corpora (Linguistics) | en_GB |
dc.subject | Linguistic analysis (Linguistics) | en_GB |
dc.title | Definiteness agreement and the pragmatics of reference in the Maltese NP | en_GB |
dc.type | article | en_GB |
dc.rights.holder | The copyright of this work belongs to the author(s)/publisher. The rights of this work are as defined by the appropriate Copyright Legislation or as modified by any successive legislation. Users may access this work and can make use of the information contained in accordance with the Copyright Legislation provided that the author must be properly acknowledged. Further distribution or reproduction in any format is prohibited without the prior permission of the copyright holder | en_GB |
dc.description.reviewed | peer-reviewed | en_GB |
dc.publication.title | STUF - Language Typology and Universals | en_GB |
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