Specificity Operators in Specdp

Datos Bibliográficos

ID5778058
AutoresRichard Campbell (0000-0002-0975-9270, University of Rochester, autor de correspondencia)
Año1996
Volumen50
Número2
Páginas161-188
Fecha de publicación1996-08-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaStudia Linguistica (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0039-3193 • E-ISSN: 1467-9582
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1467-9582.1996.tb00348.x
OpenAlexW2025588447
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas16
Referencias citadas6

In this paper I argue that a common noun phrase DP contains a small clause, including both a predicate (headed by the common noun) and an abstract subject position. DPs that are specific (in the sense of EnG 1991) are argued to have an operator in SpecDP, which A-bar binds the abstract subject position of the DP-internal small clause. This analysis forms the basis of an account of the Specificity Effect on extraction from DP, as well as some other facts concerning the internal structure of DP. The analysis also predicts that while specific nominal predicates are DPs, non-specific nominal predicates are not. The two kinds of nominal predicate differ distributionally, and it is shown that these differences follow from the proposed analysis

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