This 1999 textbook investigates definiteness both from a
comparative and a theoretical point of view, showing how languages
express definiteness and what definiteness is. It surveys a large
number of languages to discover the range of variation in relation
to definiteness and related grammatical phenomena, such as
demonstratives, possessives and personal pronouns. It outlines work
done on the nature of definiteness in semantics, pragmatics and
syntax, and develops an account on which definiteness is a
grammatical category represented in syntax as a functional head
(the widely discussed D). Consideration is also given to the
origins and evolution of definite articles in the light of the
comparative and theoretical findings. Among the claims advanced are
that definiteness does not occur in all languages, though the
pragmatic concept which it grammaticalizes probably does.
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