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Record Nr.

UNINA9910810980503321

Titolo

Possessors, predicates and movement in the determiner phrase / / edited by Artemis Alexiadou, Chris Wilder

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., c1998

ISBN

9786613234179

90-272-8229-3

1-283-23417-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (392 p.)

Collana

Linguistik aktuell, , 0166-0829 ; ; v. 22

Altri autori (Persone)

AlexiadouArtemis

WilderChris

Disciplina

415

Soggetti

Grammar, Comparative and general - Possessives

Grammar, Comparative and general - Verb phrase

Grammar, Comparative and general - Determiners

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 references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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