Multiple Determiners and the Structure of DPs
1st Edition
Published on 19. February 2014
XI, 134 pages
978-90-272-7069-6 (ISBN)
Description
This book is a research monograph that investigates the crosslinguistic distribution of multiple determiners. In some languages, noun phrases permit or even seem to require a double or multiple realization of definite/indefinite markers in certain modification environments. The book develops tools that can be used to keep the different instantiations of the phenomenon apart and argues that a uniform account thereof is not desirable. On the basis of these tools, it advances the proposal that there are different types of multiple occurrences of determiners (and sub-types thereof), some are syntactic, while others are purely morphological. It then puts forth a theoretical proposal that regulates the presence of the different types of multiple determiners across languages. The book will be of interst to researchers and students working on the structure of DP, the syntax of modification and the typology of noun phrases. Languages discussed include Greek, Romanian, Scandinavian, English, dialects of German, Hebrew, Albanian, Chinese, French, and Slovenian.
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Content
- Multiple Determiners and the Structure of DPs
- Editorial page
- Title page
- LCC data
- Table of contents
- List of abbreviations
- Preface
- 1. Introduction
- 1. What this book is about
- 2. Overview of the empirical domain
- 3. Approaching multiple marking
- 4. Background: The structure of the DP
- 5. Outline of the book
- 2. Definite determiner spreading in Greek
- 1. The structure of the Greek DP
- 2. Definite determiner spreading in the presence of adjectival modification
- 2.1 The main pattern
- 2.2 The semantic contribution of multiple determiners
- 2.2.1 The Prominence Condition and Greek clitic doubling
- 2.2.2 Determiner spreading and Prominence
- 2.3 Towards an analysis
- 2.3.1 Clitic doubling in the DP
- 2.3.2 Determiner spreading does not involve an article realizing a predication relation
- 2.3.3 Establishing the generalizations concerning adjectival distribution (again)
- 2.3.4 Greek determiner spreading does not involve lose apposition
- 2.3.5 Greek determiner spreading involves a reduced relative clause structure
- 3. Generalized multiple marking in Greek?
- 3.1 Other contexts with double marking
- 3.2 On the properties of the other multiple determiner patterns
- 3.3 Substantivized adjectives
- 3.4 Binominal NPs
- 3.5 Pseudopartitives
- 3.6 Close apposition
- 4. Summary and conclusion
- 3. Beyond Greek: Multiple definite determiners in Romance and Germanic
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Doubling in Romanian
- 2.1 The status of the definite article in Romanian
- 2.2 Romanian determiner doubling: Introducing cel
- 2.3 Romanian and Greek contrasted
- 2.3.1 On the similarities between Romanian and Greek
- 2.3.2 On the differences between Romanian and Greek
- 2.4 Towards an analysis
- 3. Doubling in Scandinavian
- 3.1 Determiners in Scandinavian
- 3.2 Double marking in Scandinavian
- 3.2.1 The suffixed article
- 3.2.2 The pre-adjectival article
- 3.3 Some differences between Greek/Romanian and Scandinavian
- 4. Doubling in the context of superlative adjectives in French
- 4.1 General distribution
- 4.2 Structuring superlatives
- 4.3 Kayne's (2004) analysis
- 4.4 An alternative?
- 5. What about English?
- 4. When adjectival determiners abound
- 1. Multiple determiners in Hebrew
- 1.1 The distribution of multiple determiners
- 1.2 An analysis of Hebrew multiple determiners
- 2. Adjectival articles in Albanian
- 2.1 The distribution of adjectival articles
- 2.2 An analysis of Albanian adjectival articles
- 3. Slovenian adjectival determiners
- 4. De in Chinese
- 5. Conclusion
- 5. Multiple determiners in indefinite noun phrases
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Doubling in the context of degree words
- 3. Towards an analysis of indefiniteness doubling with degree words
- 4. Spreading of indefinite articles in adjectival modification
- 5. Spreading of indefiniteness in Greek?
- 6. Multiple determiners and the structure of DPs: Some conclusions
- References
- Index
