On the Structure of the French DP

Datos Bibliográficos

ID20258917
AutoresDaniel Valois (Université de Montréal, autor de correspondencia)
Año1996
Volumen41
Número4
Páginas349-375
Fecha de publicación1996-12-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThe Canadian Journal of Linguistics / La revue canadienne de linguistique (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0008-4131 • E-ISSN: 1710-1115
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0008413100016613
OpenAlexW2526073485
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas8
Referencias citadas14

This paper discusses and expands upon various ideas concerning the structure of nominals in general (DPs) and of French nominals in particular, with the underlying idea that CP and DP have parallel argumental and functional structure. The main topics discussed are: (i) the projection of arguments in French and English; (ii) the parameterization of N-movement, which accounts for some word order differences between French and English; (iii) the distribution of adjectives in event nominals, which reflects that of adverbs in clauses in both French and English; (iv) a peculiar case of rightward movement out of DP that provides further evidence for N-movement as well as for the claim concerning the prohibition on right adjunction of genitive nominals within DP; and (v) extraction facts that are a consequence of the status of [Spec, DP] as an A′-position in French

Adjunction · Determiner · Event (particle physics) · Event structure · Genitive case · Linguistics · Movement (music) · Noun · Pure mathematics · Word order · Historical Linguistics and Language Studies · History · Linguistics and Discourse Analysis · Mathematics · Philosophy · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation