Trenkic, D. (2003) Definiteness in Serbian/Croatian/Bosnian and some implications for the general structure of the nominal phrase. Lingua, 114 (11). pp. 1401-1427. ISSN 0024-3841
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This paper questions traditional views that in Serbian/Croatian/Bosnian (S/C/B), languages without a system of articles, definiteness may be expressed through some other linguistic means, namely word order, the aspect of adjectives, and demonstrative determiners. While it is assumed that semantic/pragmatic definiteness as a universal category is inferred in communication though some general principles of goal-oriented behaviour, it is argued that it is not grammaticalised in these languages. The structure of the nominal phrase in S/C/B is discussed, and evidence from an SLA study presented which supports the argument that DP is not projected on top of (full) nominal phrases in S/C/B.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Academic Units: | The University of York > Education (York) |
| Depositing User: | York RAE Import |
| Date Deposited: | 27 Mar 2009 14:37 |
| Last Modified: | 27 Mar 2009 14:37 |
| Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2003.09.005 |
| Status: | Published |
| Publisher: | Elsevier Science B.V. |
| Identification Number: | 10.1016/j.lingua.2003.09.005 |
| URI: | http://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/id/eprint/6973 |
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