Tongan Determiners and Semantic Composition

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ID11110239
AuthorsRandall Hendrick (corresponding author)
Year2005
Volume81
Issue4
Pages907-926
Publication date2005-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueLanguage (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0097-8507 • E-ISSN: 1535-0665
PublisherProject MUSE (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1353/lan.2005.0159
OpenAlexW2111292646
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited14

This article describes the syntactic distribution and semantic interpretation of determiners in Tongan (Polynesian). This determiner system is unusual because it contains, in addition to the familiar definite and indefinite, a third contrasting morpheme, labeled Ôsemi-definiteÕ in traditional descriptions. A description of the behavior of these three determiners is offered that makes use of some conceptual tools provided by recent crosslinguistic work in formal semantics

Determiner · Interpretation (philosophy) · Linguistics · Morpheme · Natural language processing · Noun · Semantic interpretation · Semantic property · Semantics (computer science) · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Philosophy · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation

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