Probing the role of bounding, definiteness and other factors: bare noun and determiner use in Guianese French Creole

From a cognitive‑semantic perspective, two important conceptual schemas underlie determiner use and the count/mass distinction in languages such as English and French, namely bounding and definiteness. This paper investigates to what extent these concepts are related to noun phrase marking in Guiane...

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Main Author: Evelyn Wiesinger
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Association Française de Linguistique Cognitive 2022-11-01
Series:CogniTextes
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/cognitextes/2357