Uniqueness and maximality in German and Polish: A production experiment

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11210%2F21%3A10429088" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11210/21:10429088 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5082462" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5082462</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5082462" target="_blank" >10.5281/zenodo.5082462</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Uniqueness and maximality in German and Polish: A production experiment

Original language description

According to a prominent hypothesis, word order manipulations in Slavic languages without articles can correspond to the use of definite or indefinite articles in languages that have them. We test this hypothesis using a production design in which participants build sentential picture descriptions from provided constituents. The crucial question is whether articles in German and word order in Polish are sensitive to visually depicted uniqueness or maximality of reference. We fail to find support for the article-word order correspondence; while the use of articles in German is sensitive to uniqueness/maximality, the use of word order in Polish is not.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

C - Chapter in a specialist book

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60203 - Linguistics

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name

Formal approaches to number in Slavic and beyond

ISBN

978-3-9855401-0-5

Number of pages of the result

23

Pages from-to

149-171

Number of pages of the book

492

Publisher name

Language Science Press

Place of publication

Berlin

UT code for WoS chapter

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