
Possessors, Predicates and Movement in the Determiner Phrase
John Benjamins Publishing Co
Published on 15. October 1998
Book
Hardback
388 pages
978-90-272-2743-0 (ISBN)
Description
This volume presents a cross-section of current research on the internal syntax of 'Determiner Phrases` (DPs), with special emphasis on the analysis of DPs modified by genitival, adjectival and other non-finite attributes. Possessors, Predicates and Movement in the DP illustrates clearly the ongoing debate over older and more recent approaches to the syntax of DPs in particular in the wake of the minimalist program (Chomsky 1995) and Kayne's antisymmetry hypothesis (Kayne 1994). The relative theoretical coherence among the contributions permits detailed comparison of specific syntactic proposals, providing a solid basis for further debate. Several of the papers address the syntactic questions in parallel with related semantic or morphological issues. The value of this collection to the study of Universal Grammar is also underlined by its comparative bias. Analyses of Germanic, Romance and Balkan languages figure prominently, and a number of new empirical generalizations within and between languages are discussed.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Amsterdam
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 245 mm
Width: 164 mm
Weight
660 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-272-2743-0 (9789027227430)
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Content
1. List of Contributors; 2. Introduction (by Alexiadou, Artemis); 3. On the deficient/strong Opposition in Possessive Systems (by Cardinaletti, Anna); 4. Possessors, Articles and Definiteness (by Schoorlemmer, Maaike); 5. Possession in Germanic (by Delsing, Lars-Olof); 6. Attributive Genitive Constructions in German (by Lindauer, Thomas); 7. Case Underspecification in Morphology, Syntax and the Lexicon (by Gallmann, Peter); 8. Predicate Inversion in DP (by Dikken, Marcel den); 9. Predicate Movement in Pseudopartitive Constructions (by Corver, Norbert); 10. A Theory of Kinds, Partitives and of/z Possessives (by Zamparelli, Roberto); 11. Adjectival Modification and Multiple Determiners (by Alexiadou, Artemis); 12. Fragments of Balkan Nominal Structure (by Dimitrova-Vulchanova, Mila); 13. A Note on Rigidity (by Uriagereka, Juan); 14. Subject Index