Граматичната определеност на името и глагола през призмата на контенсивната типология
Grammatical definiteness of nouns and verbs in the framework of content typology

Summary/Abstract: Contensive typology is one of the few contrastive methods that offer a semiotic overview of the language system. Contensive typology analysis of the grammatical definiteness in the nominal and verbal syntagma shows that, rather than a grammatical category, it is a determinant operation with its instruments and that its main purpose is to specify the reference and the denotation of the linguistic sign. In the languages over the world, a variety of categories are used for this operation. Among others, the leading nominal determinant categories for every contentoriented alignment are as follows: class / gender for class languages, possession in active languages, case in ergative languages, article and classifiers in some nominative languages. This non-homogeneity of grammatical definiteness requires that it be accepted as a determinant operation similar to emphatisation and topicalisation even when in a given language the article is available for definiteness purposes. In the verb phrase, grammatical definiteness, expressed formally through agreement features, unfolds in a smooth transition from predictive (+ argument-predicative organization) to deictive ( – argument-predicative organization) function.

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