Abstract In his Doppelvortrag (1901), Edmund Husserl introduced two concepts of “definiteness” which have been interpreted as a vindication role in the history completeness. Some commentators defended that meaning these notions should be understood categoricity, while other scholars believed it is closer to syntactic A detailed study early twentieth-century axiomatics and Husserl’s shows, howev...

Abstract This study investigates the second language (L2) acquisition of a constraint on definiteness in Japanese floating numeral quantifiers (NQs) by native English and Korean speakers. The arises because specific structural relation between NQ its associated noun, resulting an obligatorily indefinite interpretation. indirect – or, covert encoding this structure allows investigation predictio...

It has long been noticed that the Slavic superlative prefix nai-/naj- comprises two components: *na + *i. The former can be identified with preposition Sl na ‘on(to)’ which developed an intensifying meaning when used as a prefix. origin of second component, on other hand, not determined satisfactorily so far. This paper argues it definiteness marker. Drawing upon typologically common pattern, i...

We present a parallel corpus study that compares the distribution of German contracted/uncontracted articles and Mandarin bare nouns/demonstratives. Work by Schwarz (2009) Jenks (2018) leads us to predict contracted pattern with nouns uncontracted demonstratives. show these predictions are only partly borne out argue for more fine-grained typology definiteness.