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Under the DP hypothesis, does anything ever go in the Spec of NP?
I attach Carnie's illustration of "several people who she kissed" below:
My question is on the NP to N' branch (red boxed). I was taught that restrictive relatives clauses are adjuncts to ...
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NP or DP for "that book"
When referring to phrases such as "that book", would it be considered a DP or a NP? I think it should be considered as a DP but I am not sure how to prove it using our given data. Some data ...
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Languages with overt determiners AND pronouns/proper nouns
I am currently performing a cross-linguistic investigation of determiner phrases, and I was wondering if there are languages out there where an overt determiner can occur with a pronoun or proper noun,...
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Substantivized Adjectives and the NP vs. DP Debate
At least since the 80s linguists have debated whether simple phrases like the cake are NPs with determiners in the specifier position or DPs with NP complements. Substantivized adjectives seem to me ...
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Subcategorisation Frame with DPs
I want to construct a subcatagorisation frame for some words, for example that take a DP complement. Take the preposition "between" as example. I arrive at this point:
Form: "...
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How to analyze an NP with two determiners?
I have a phrase and I have to draw a tree structure of it.
"These many awful photographs" is the phrase.
The only thing that I don't get is the "many".
"These" is DP, "awful" is the adjective, and "...
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"an" -> "a" When Describing a Noun With Adjectives
Observed in fluent speech:
a unrounded vowel
To a native English speaker, the following would be expected instead:
an unrounded vowel
What's happening here? It looks like the speaker is ...
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Quantifier (Noun Phrase + Prepositional Phrase); what are they called?
I'm having a really hard time searching for the exact term to refer to quantifiers that are of NP+PP combinations. E.g.: a lot of, lots of, a bit of, plenty of, a number of, an amount of, etc. "Basic" ...
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What makes the "an" a determiner in one situation and a preposition in another in English?
The "an" word is usually a determiner: I will be ready in an hour.
It can also be used as a preposition with the meaning of "per": My rate is $10 an hour.
How can I tell in each particular situation ...
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Resources/papers on Portuguese nominal syntax and determiners?
I'm vaguely aware that the (definite) determiner has a much freer distribution in Portuguese than in other languages, e.g. it can come before personal names:
A Maria lê um livro.
The Maria reads a ...
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Is there any language that expresses the category D but doesn't have inverse scope?
By "expresses the category D" I mean, preferably, that there is solid evidence/argumentation for a given morpheme to be analyzed as overtly heading a Determiner projection. I would limit such ...
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