Multiple determiners and the structure of DPs / / Artemis Alexiadou

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910453487103321
• Autore: Alexiadou Artemis
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Amsterdam : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , [2014]; ©2014
• ISBN: 90-272-7069-4
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (146 p.)
• Collana: Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today
• Disciplina: 410.367
• Soggetti: English language; Language and languages; Linguistics; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical refferences and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 doubling2.2.2 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 patterns3.3 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 Scandinavian3.2 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 articles2.2 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 synta