Definiteness of bare NPs as a function of clausal position: A corpus study of Czech

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Definiteness of bare NPs as a function of clausal position: A corpus study of Czech

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

We provide novel corpus evidence that the definiteness of a bare (nondetermined) noun phrase (NP) depends on the position of the NP in the clause, thus corroborating an intuition common among Slavic linguists since the 1970s. The most significant finding is that indefinite bare NPs are very unlikely to occur in clause-initial position. A further notable result is that definiteness of a bare NP is affected by its absolute position in the clause (clause-initial vs. clause-final), but not its position relative to the verb (preverbal vs. postverbal). This has worrisome implications for theories according to which the verb partitions the clause into a presupposed and nonpresupposed area. Finally, we are able to tease apart the effect of clausal position from the effect of syntactic function, to the effect that being a subject or object (properties that strongly correlate with being clause-initial and clause-final, respectively) does not increase the likelihood of bare NPs to be interpreted as definite or indefinite, respectively.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Definiteness of bare NPs as a function of clausal position: A corpus study of Czech

Popis výsledku anglicky

We provide novel corpus evidence that the definiteness of a bare (nondetermined) noun phrase (NP) depends on the position of the NP in the clause, thus corroborating an intuition common among Slavic linguists since the 1970s. The most significant finding is that indefinite bare NPs are very unlikely to occur in clause-initial position. A further notable result is that definiteness of a bare NP is affected by its absolute position in the clause (clause-initial vs. clause-final), but not its position relative to the verb (preverbal vs. postverbal). This has worrisome implications for theories according to which the verb partitions the clause into a presupposed and nonpresupposed area. Finally, we are able to tease apart the effect of clausal position from the effect of syntactic function, to the effect that being a subject or object (properties that strongly correlate with being clause-initial and clause-final, respectively) does not increase the likelihood of bare NPs to be interpreted as definite or indefinite, respectively.

Druh

D - Stať ve sborníku

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60203 - Linguistics

Projekt

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Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2020

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název statě ve sborníku

Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics 26: The Urbana-Champaign Meeting 2017

ISBN

978-0-930042-90-5

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Počet stran výsledku

19

Strana od-do

343-361

Název nakladatele

Michigan Slavic Publications

Místo vydání

Ann Arbor, MI

Místo konání akce

Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA

Datum konání akce

19. 5. 2017

Typ akce podle státní příslušnosti

WRD - Celosvětová akce

Kód UT WoS článku

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