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Title Possessors, predicates, and movement in the determiner phrase / edited by Artemis Alexiadou, Chris Wilder
Published Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, ©1998

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Description 1 online resource (386 pages)
Series Linguistik aktuell, 0166-0829 ; v. 22
Linguistik aktuell ; Bd. 22.
Contents List of Contributors -- Introduction -- On the deficient/strong Opposition in Possessive Systems -- Possessors, Articles and Definiteness -- Possession in Germanic -- Attributive Genitive Constructions in German -- Case Underspecification in Morphology, Syntax and the Lexicon -- Predicate Inversion in DP -- Predicate Movement in Pseudopartitive Constructions -- A Theoy of Kinds, Partitives and of/z Possessives -- Adjectival Modification and Multiple Determiners -- Fragments of Balkan Nominal Structure -- A Note on Rigidity -- Subject Index
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Grammar, Comparative and general -- Possessives.
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Verb phrase.
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Determiners.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Grammar & Punctuation.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Syntax.
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Determiners
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Possessives
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Verb phrase
Determinator
Possessivität
Prädikat
Syntaxis.
Nominale constituenten.
Form Electronic book
Author Alexiadou, Artemis
Wilder, Chris
LC no. 98035296
ISBN 9789027282293
9027282293