Definiteness is visibly expressed by definite articles in English, but some languages such as Korean lack this morphological exponent. However, speakers of such languages still mark definiteness in different ways. In this proposal, we lay out a study that examines the (re)assembly required by L1-English L2-Korean learners where the formal feature of definiteness in the L1 has to be readjusted t...

This paper suggests an analysis of Modern Hebrew noun phrases in the framework of HPSG. It focuses on the peculiar properties of the definite article, including the requirement for definiteness agreement among various elements in the noun phrase, definiteness inheritance in constructstate nominals, the fact that the article does not combine with constructs and the similarities between construct...

The use of an indefinite NP often implies that the NP’s descriptive content is instantiated by more than one individual. But do indefinites conventionally signal this notion of nonuniqueness or does nonuniqueness arise pragmatically, via reasoning about scalar alternatives? In this paper I argue that in Tagalog, indefinite bare NP patients are only able to implicate nonuniqueness if there is a ...

We show how the Mellin transform can be used to derive differential criteria for integral representations of functions as scale mixtures, and apply this idea to derive differential criteria for positive definiteness of functions in a manner similar to that of Gneiting (1999,2001). We also give a simple derivation of Williamson’s result on multiply monotone functions (Williamson, 1956), with a l...