Agreement, disagreement and the NP vs. DP debate

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ID22130251
AuthorsFrank Van Eynde (0000-0002-6172-442X, KU Leuven, corresponding author)
Year2020
Volume5
Issue1
Publication date2020-07-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueGlossa a journal of general linguistics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2397-1835 • E-ISSN: 2397-1835
PublisherOpen Library of the Humanities (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.5334/gjgl.1119
OpenAlexW3039248067
LanguageNL
Citations received4
References cited13

Of special relevance for the NP vs. DP debate are nominals in which the determiner has other values for number, gender, case and/or person than the noun, for depending on whether such nominals share these values with the noun or with the determiner they provide evidence in favor of either the NP or the DP approach. This paper discusses some nominals of this kind and shows that they share the relevant feature values with the noun. It then develops an NP analysis for these nominals which is cast in the notation of Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar. It also shows what a DP analysis would look like. A comparison reveals that the NP analyses are less complex, more uniform and less stipulative. Examples are taken from Dutch, English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Polish and Serbo-Croatian

Agreement · Determiner · Determiner phrase · German · Grammar · Linguistics · Nominalization · Noun · Noun phrase · Gender Studies in Language · Mathematics · Natural Language Processing Techniques · Philosophy · Psychology · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation

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