Adjectives

Introduction: The syntax of nominals and noun phrases

“…The answer in this literature was positive and the DP-hypothesis was established; the determiner was assumed to head the noun phrase. The 1990s saw a period of intense work on noun phrases within generative grammar and further functional heads were posited, see for instance Ritter (1991), Valois (1991), Bernstein (1993), Cinque (1994) and Longobardi (1994), to mention but a few. Less attention was paid to noun phrases within theories other than Government and Binding, but a notable exception is the analysis proposed within Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar by Netter (1994).…”