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

• Pubblicazione: Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., c1998
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (392 p.)
• Disciplina: 415
• Soggetto topico: Grammar, Comparative and general - Possessives; Grammar, Comparative and general - Verb phrase; Grammar, Comparative and general - Determiners
• Altri autori: AlexiadouArtemis WilderChris
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Possessors, predicates and movement in the determiner phrase
• ISBN: 9786613234179; 90-272-8229-3; 1-283-23417-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910810980503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Linguistik aktuell ; ; Bd. 22.