Open AccessWhat do definites do that indefinites definitely don't?
Author(s) -
Daniel Büring
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
zas papers in linguistics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1435-9588
DOI - 10.21248/zaspil.23.2001.113
Subject(s) - definiteness , word order , german , object (grammar) , linguistics , point (geometry) , word (group theory) , order (exchange) , computer science , mathematics , natural language processing , philosophy , geometry , finance , economics
This paper investigates how (in)definiteness in word order; more specifically, how it in the ordering of objects in the Mittelfeld of German double-object constructions. As a starting point I take what I'll call the Indefinite Puzzle.
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