Proceedings of the Workshop "Specificity and the Evolution / Emergence of Nominal Determination Systems in Romance"

Abstract

The volume is a collection of papers given at the workshop Specificity and the Evolution / Emergence of Nominal Determination Systems in Romance at the Freie Universität of Berlin in October 2004. The papers investigate synchronic variation as well as diachronic development of the different determiner/pronominal systems and especially of different systems of differential object marking (DOM). They provide more insights into the interaction between the semantics of specificity (and other referential categories) and the morpho-syntax of the languages under investigation, yealding a new understanding of different typologically relevant choices made by different Romance languages as to their morphosyntactic make-up.