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1、JournalofSemantics,28,2011:279333doi:10.1093/jos/ffq022AdvanceAccesspublicationJanuary25,2011ConceptTypesandDeterminationSEBASTIANLO¨BNERHeinrich-Heine-Universita¨tDu¨sseldorfAbstractThearticleoffersasystematicaccountoffourbasictypesofnouns,offourbasictypesofnominaldeterminationa
2、ndoftheinteractionofnountypeanddeterminationtype.Thefourbasicnountypesaresortal,individual,relationalandfunctional;theyDownloadedfromcorrespondtothefourlogicaltypesÆe,tæ,e,Æe,Æe,tææandÆe,eæontheonehand,andtofourtypesofconceptsontheother.Thefourbasictypesofnominaldeterminationares
3、ingulardefinite,indefinite(avarietyofdeterminationsincludingsimpleindefinite),absoluteandrelative,wherepossessivedeterminationisacombinationjos.oxfordjournals.orgofrelativereferenceandpossessorspecification.Onlyinherentlyuniqueconceptsareavailableforsingulardefinitereference,onlynonun
4、iqueonesforindefiniteuse,onlynonrelationalconceptsforabsolutereferenceandonlyrelationalonesforrelativeuse.However,determinersofeachtypecanbecombinedwithnounsofeachlexicaltype:atWuhanUniversityLibraryonOctober15,2011ifthetyperestrictionsarenotmet,thenounisshiftedtoanappropriatetype
5、.Onthisbasis,congruentandincongruentdeterminationsaredistinguished.Statistical,typologicalandhistoricalevidenceispresentedthatcorroboratesthehypothesisthatincongruentdeterminationisamarkedoptionandinvolvestypeshiftsofthenoun.1INTRODUCTIONThisarticleisanattempttopresenttheoutlines
6、ofasemantictheoryofdetermination,basedonthedistinctionoffourbasicconceptuallexicaltypesofnouns:sortal,individual,relationalandfunctional.Itwillbearguedthatthefunctionofdeterminationessentiallyistoformasortal,individual,relationalorfunctionalconceptonthebasisofthelexical1meaningof
7、theCNPwiththepossibleadditionoffurtherconceptualcontent.Thelexicaltypeofthenounanditstypeunderdeterminationneednotmatch.Onthecontrary,determinationcanyieldanytypeofNPconceptfromanylexicaltypeofnoun.Therefore,thefocusofthetheorywillbeontheinteractionoflexicalnounmeaningwithdetermi
8、nation.TheproposalisconfinedtoNPsinrefere