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Volume 64: Issue 2
DP and mandatory determiners in article-less Serbo-Croatian
Author:
Branimir Stanković University of Niš, Serbia

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Pages:
257–279
Online Publication Date:
Jun 2017
Publication Date:
01 Jun 2017
Article Category:
Research Article
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1556/2062.2017.64.2.5
Keywords:
DP; Serbo-Croatian; determiners; definiteness; articles
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Although it lacks grammaticalized categories of definite and indefinite articles and its “bare” nouns are (usually) ambiguous between a definite and indefinite interpretation, Serbo-Croatian has appropriate lexical items for marking discourse-old and discourse-new nominal referents. I demonstrate that there are contexts in which use of these discourse markers is obligatory for obtaining the intended reading, as the “bare” nominal phrase would unambiguously be interpreted as definite or indefinite, depending on the context. More importantly, when present, these discourse markers block left branch and adjunct extractions from the rest of the NP, indicating that a determiner phrase might be projected, even in an article less language.

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