Although it lacks grammaticalized categories of definite and indefinite articles and its “bare” nouns are (usually) ambiguous between a definite and indefinite interpretation, Serbo-Croatian has appropriate lexical items for marking discourse-old and discourse-new nominal referents. I demonstrate that there are contexts in which use of these discourse markers is obligatory for obtaining the intended reading, as the “bare” nominal phrase would unambiguously be interpreted as definite or indefinite, depending on the context. More importantly, when present, these discourse markers block left branch and adjunct extractions from the rest of the NP, indicating that a determiner phrase might be projected, even in an article less language.

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无塞尔维亚塞尔维亚语的DP和强制确定器

尽管它缺少定冠词和不定冠词的语法化类别，并且其“裸”名词在定冠词和定冠词之间通常是模棱两可的，但塞尔维亚-克罗地亚语有适当的词法项来标记语篇古老和语篇新的名词指称。我证明了在某些情况下必须使用这些话语标记来获得预期的阅读效果，因为根据上下文，“裸”名词短语将被明确地解释为确定的或不确定的。更重要的是，这些话语标记在出现时会阻止从NP其余部分中提取左分支和辅助词，这表明即使是用较少文章的语言，也可能会投射出确定性短语。