N-to-D Movement within Compounds and Phrases

Referential Compounding, -s Possessives, and Title Expressions in Dutch

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ID5901168
AuthorsMarijke De Belder (0000-0002-1929-5131)
Year2022
Volume7
Issue4
Pages304
Publication date2022-11-29
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueLanguages (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2226-471X • E-ISSN: 2226-471X
PublisherMDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT)
DOI10.3390/languages7040304
OpenAlexW4310379950
LanguageEN
References cited15

Noun-noun concatenations can differ along two parameters. They can be compounds, i.e., single words, or constructs, i.e., constituents, and they can have modificational non-heads or referential non-heads. Of the four logical possibilities, one was argued not to exist: compounds of which the non-head is referential were considered to be principally excluded. In this article, I argue that Dutch has compounds with a referential non-head. They resemble the Dutch s-possessive in that their non-heads involve movement to a referential layer. However, unlike the possessive structures, the compounding structure contains head incorporation which results in word-hood. The article further discusses title expressions, such as Prince Charles, which are argued to be referential construct states. Together with the syntactic structure of titles plus proper names, the referential compounds further contribute evidence to the idea that a ban on N-to-D movement for certain uniquely referring roots, such as sun and Bronx, is extra-syntactic

Compounding · Head (geology · Linguistics · Movement (music · Noun · Noun phrase · Possessive · Proper noun · Specifier · Computer Science · linguistics and terminology studies · Natural Language Processing Techniques · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation · Philosophy

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