1 Basic observations
1.1 What in definiteness?
1.2 Types of definite noun phrase
1.3 Simple and comlex indefinites
1.4 The noun phrase
1.5 Definiteness beyond the noun phrase
2 Simple definites and indefinits
2.1 Definiteness and indefiniteness marking
2.2 Definites:semantic content and behaviour
2.3 Definite article types
2.4 Other ways of experssing definiteness
2.5 Indefinites
2.6 General remarks
3 Complex definites and indefinites
3.1 Demonstratives
3.2 Proper nouns
3.3 Possessives
3.4 Personal pronouns
3.5 Universals and other quantifiers
3.6 Indefinties
3.7 Indefinite demonstratives
3.8 Vocatives
3.9 Non-configurational languages
4 Some semantic and pragmatic distinctions
4.1 One definiteness or several?
4.2 Specificity and referentiality
4.3 Generics
4.4 Concluding comments
5 Interaction with other grammatical phenomena
6 Definiteness effects
7 Defining definiteness
8 Definiteness and noun phrase structure
9 Diachronic aspects
Refernces
Index
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