Translation Mining: Definiteness across Languages (A Reply to Jenks 2018)

• Autor: Bremmers, David ; Liu, Jianan ; van der Klis, Martijn ; Le Bruyn, Bert
• Assuntos: definiteness ; German ; Language and Linguistics ; Linguistics and Language ; Mandarin ; semantics ; strong/ weak distinction ; Taverne
• Notas: https://dspace.library.uu.nl/handle/1874/426487
  Linguistic Inquiry 53(4), 735-752 (2022)
  0024-3892
  
• Descrição: We present a parallel corpus study that compares the distribution of German contracted/ uncontracted articles and Mandarin bare nouns/ demonstratives. Work by Schwarz (2009) and Jenks (2018) leads us to predict that German contracted articles pattern with Mandarin bare nouns and German uncontracted articles with Mandarin demonstra-tives. We show that these predictions are only partly borne out and argue for a more fine-grained typology of definiteness.
  
• Data de criação/publicação: 2022-09
  
• Idioma: Inglês