Introduction The (not so) universal D

• Published in: Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique
• Main Authors: Armoskaite, Solveiga, Gillon, Carrie
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2015
• Subjects: Linguistics and Language; Language and Linguistics; inuktitut
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0008413100026219; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0008413100026219

This volume grew out of our research agenda, seeking to understand the structure and interpretation of bare nouns in three typologically and genetically unrelated articleless languages: Lithuanian, Inuktitut, and Innu-aimun. None of these languages has articles, and yet they are very different from one another with respect to the syntactic and semantic behaviour of their bare nouns (for Lithuanian, see Gillon and Armoskaite 2013, 2015; for Lithuanian and Innu-aimun, Gillon and Armoskaite 2012; for Inuktitut, Lithuanian and Innu-aimun, Gillon 2013, 2015). This variation forced us to question the universality of D, as well as the universality of the semantics of D.