This 1999 textbook investigates definiteness both from a comparative and a theoretical point of view, showing how languages express definiteness and what defini

In its evolution from a synthetic to an analytic language, Bulgarian acquired a grammaticalized category of definiteness. The book presents the first attempt to

Definiteness has been a central topic in theoretical semantics since its modern foundation. However, despite its significance, there has been surprisingly scarc

The Representation of(In)definiteness collects the most important current research, reflecting a wide range of approaches, on a central theoretical issue in lin

This book looks at the relationship between the structure of the sentence and the organization of discourse. While a sentence obeys specific grammatical rules,