Variable Phi-Agreement across the Determiner Phrase

2021 ◽  
pp. 66-98
Keyword(s):  
Determiner Phrase

Reformulating the Determiner Phrase Analysis

2008 ◽  
Vol 2 (6) ◽  
pp. 1246-1270 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judy B. Bernstein
Keyword(s):  
Determiner Phrase

Non-inflectional plural in yucatec maya

2021 ◽  
pp. 484-496
Author(s):  
Lindsay Butler
Keyword(s):  
Language Processing ◽  
Noun Phrase ◽  
Sentence Production ◽  
Linguistic Variation ◽  
Determiner Phrase ◽  
Yucatec Maya ◽  
Derivational Morphology ◽  
Production Experiment ◽  
Plural Marking ◽  
Additional Support

This chapter examines the morphosyntactic properties of optional, non-inflectional plural marking in Yucatec Maya. Evidence is presented that suggests that the non-inflectional plural in Yucatec Maya adjoins to the Determiner Phrase rather than heading the Number Phrase as in better-known languages. Plural marking cannot occur inside of compounds, derivational morphology, or on a prenominal adjective. Additionally, it can adjoin to the second linear noun of a conjoined noun phrase and modify either or both of the conjuncts. The results of a sentence production experiment with speakers of Yucatec Maya are summarized and provide additional support for the Determiner Phrase–adjoined hypothesis. The Yucatec Maya facts are discussed in the wider context of cross-linguistic variation in the typology of plural marking and the implications for linguistic theory and models of language processing.

scholarly journals Bengali Noun Phrase complex: A minimalist approach

1970 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 67-86
Author(s):  
Shishir Bhattacharja
Keyword(s):  
Key Words ◽  
Noun Phrase ◽  
Left Periphery ◽  
Determiner Phrase ◽  
Minimalist Approach

In this article, we show, following the Minimalist approach, how features like definiteness and specificity are checked either through Probe-Goal or through overt movement to different projections situated in the left periphery of Noun Phrase complex (NPC) constituated of, as we suggest, the NP itself and the traditonal DP split into four different projections: Deixis Phrase, Determiner Phrase, Classifier Phrase and Quantifier Phrase. At the end of this article we point out some of the limitations of this approach and show how they can be handled in the Substantivist or similar approaches. Key words: Definiteness, Specificity, Deixis, Classifier, Quantifier, SubstantiveDOI: 10.3329/dujl.v1i2.3717  The Dhaka University Journal of Linguistics: Vol. 1 No.2 August, 2008 Page: 67-86  

scholarly journals The acquisition of the determiner phrase in bilingual and second language French

2000 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 263-280 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonas Granfeldt
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Language Learners ◽  
Second Language Learners ◽  
Phrase Structure ◽  
Determiner Phrase ◽  
Functional Categories ◽  
L2 Acquisition ◽  
Structure Building ◽  
Complementary Distribution ◽  
L1 Acquisition

This study deals with the acquisition of Functional Categories in the French Determiner Phrase. The development of determiners and prenominal adjectives in three bilingual Swedish–French children is compared with that of four Swedish second language learners of French. It is argued that acquisition is crucially different in these two cases. The bilingual children initially have restrictions on phrase structure, resulting at one stage in a complementary distribution of determiners and adjectives. These results support a structure building view of L1 acquisition. For L2 acquisition of the same structure, there is no evidence for an initially reduced phrase structure. This finding is explained in terms of a transfer effect. A preliminary comparison with the acquisition of finiteness suggests that, whereas there is some correlation over time in the L1B subjects, no such correlation is found in the L2 learners.

The Inner Makeup of Definite Determiners: The Case of Germanic

2013 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 295-411 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dorian Roehrs
Keyword(s):  
Internal Structure ◽  
Syntactic Structure ◽  
Determiner Phrase ◽  
Definite Articles ◽  
Germanic Languages

This paper studies the internal structure of definite articles and demon-stratives in twelve Germanic languages. Examining synchronic and diachronic data as well as systematic gaps, it seeks to illuminate the nature of definiteness markers and inflections,d- and -erin Germand-er‘the' andd-ies-er‘this', with the goal of identifying some consequences for the syntax of the determiner phrase as a whole. Arguing that definite-ness markers are semantically vacuous elements, the paper proposes that articles involve an inflectional head in the syntax and demonstratives consist of an inflectional and a deictic head. Isomorphic correspondences between overt components and abstract syntactic structure may be partially or completely “masked” by postsyntactic operations.*

scholarly journals The Syntax of Multiple Determination in Arabic: An anti- residual relative clause/close-apposition account

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saleh Jarallah AlQahtani
Keyword(s):  
Relative Clause ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Minimalist Program ◽  
Definite Article ◽  
Determiner Phrase ◽  
Specific Analysis ◽  
Syntactic Representation ◽  
Multiple Determination ◽  
Linguistic Phenomenon ◽  
Attributive Adjectives

This paper aims to give an account of the multiple determination (determiner spreading) phenomenon in Arabic. Determiner spreading is the syntactic representation and phonological realization of multiple determiners within the same determiner phrase. As a cross-linguistic phenomenon, determiner spreading has been investigated in other languages (e.g., Scandinavian and Greek); different accounts have been proposed. For Scandinavian languages, determiner spreading has been analyzed as a representation of different semantic interpretations. As far as Greek is concerned, some analyses have been proposed; however, two prominent ones have received considerable attention in the literature: (i) a residue of a reduced relative clause and (ii) an instantiation of close appositions. Contrary to those analyses, this paper claims that none of the two analyses is suitable for Arabic; thus, a language-specific analysis is required. To analyze determiner spreading in Arabic, the current paper posits the following research question: What is the linguistic purpose of the multiple determiners found in Arabic determiner phrases? Answering the research question, the paper claims that, in addition to its indispensable role in establishing agreement between nouns and adjectives within the Arabic determiner phrase, determiner spreading demarcates syntactic and semantic phrase boundaries. The paper takes Minimalist Program and Distributed Morphology as a theoretical framework to argue that attributive adjectives are projection of an agreement phrase headed by the definite article ʔal or by the indefinite phonological marker `nunation: -n’. This proposal requires no syntactic movements in the syntax proper. The ultimate linear order is achieved in the phonological components.

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