Johan Van Der Auwera

This book is a collection of linguistic and philosophical papers dealing with the semantic problems of determiners. The language under investigation is mostly English, although a few papers deal with French and German, and, to a lesser extent, with Dutch, Polish, Russian and Hebrew. The majority of the contributions focus on the semantics of the definite and indefinite articles, leading into discussions of anaphoricness, specificness, opacity and transparency, referentiality and attributiveness and genericness. The relation of the determiners to other parts of grammar, in particular relativisation and predication, is also investigated. Some attention is also given to quantifiers. In the spirit of pluralism, there is no single paradigm unifying all the papers, rather, the volume reflects elements of the Extended Standard Theory, Generative Semantics, Montague Grammar, (Gricean) Pragmatics and Speech Act Theory.

The Semantics of Determiners (RLE Linguistics B: Grammar)

Hans Bennis

Sjef Barbiers

The Syntactic Atlas of the Dutch Dialects (SAND) provides a detailed overview of the surprisingly rich syntactic variation found in the 267 dialects of Dutch recorded at the beginning of the twenty-first century. More than 200 full-color maps illustrate the geographic distribution of over 100 syntactic variables, many of which are absent from the Dutch standard language. A state-of-the-art linguistic description accompanies each map, taking into account both modern syntactic research and historical developments. Volume II concentrates on the morphosyntactic variation in two and three-verb clusters, verb cluster interruption, the position of particles and “to” in verb clauses, auxiliary selection, do-insertion, negation, and qualification.

Johan Van Der Auwera

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