Determiners in NP and DP

Stowell, Tim

doi:10.1007/978-94-011-3196-4_3

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“…The pattern of determiner omission in French appears close to justify an influential proposal originally made by Szabolcsi (1987), later adopted in Stowell (1989Stowell ( , 1991 and Longobardi (1994), namely that a D position (and its projection) is only necessary for argument nominals and may often be dispensable for non-arguments. Such a principle has been formulated in forms such as the following 12 :…”

Section: Arguments and Non-argumentssupporting

confidence: 68%

The Structure of DPs: Some Principles, Parameters, and Problems

Longobardi¹

2001

The Handbook of Contemporary Syntactic Theory

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Section: Arguments and Non-argumentssupporting

confidence: 68%

The Structure of DPs: Some Principles, Parameters, and Problems

Longobardi¹

2001

The Handbook of Contemporary Syntactic Theory

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“…The second question that was mentioned about bare predicate nominals in English concerns the correct analysis of compound predicates as in (37). First, following Stowell (1991) let us observe that only a restricted class of adjectives and PPs can appear as adjuncts to such bare predicates. According to my informants' judgements, the following contrasts hold.…”

Section: Nounmentioning

confidence: 99%

On some problems of (in)definiteness within flexible semantics

Winter¹

2005

Lingua

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“…In some languages nominal predicates must appear without an article; we will be particularly interested in situations where, as in (6), it is definite predicates that do so (Stowell 1991). Predicates can show particular case-marking (case agreement with the subject, or dedicated predicative case).…”

Section: Small Clausesmentioning

confidence: 99%

On the linguistic complexity of proper names

Matushansky

2008

Linguist and Philos

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While proper names in argument positions have received a lot of attention, this cannot be said about proper names in the naming construction, as in ''Call me Al''. I argue that in a number of more or less familiar languages the syntax of naming constructions is such that proper names there have to be analyzed as predicates, whose content mentions the name itself (cf. ''quotation theories''). If proper names can enter syntax as predicates, then in argument positions they should have a complex structure, consisting of a determiner and its restriction, like common nouns (cf. ''definite description theories of proper names''). Further consideration of the compositional semantics of proper names in the naming construction also shows that they have another argument slot, that of the naming convention. As a result, we will be able to account for the indexicality of proper names in argument positions and provide compositional semantics of complex and modified proper names (e.g., the famous detective Sherlock Holmes).

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Determiners in NP and DP

Cited by 91 publications

References 6 publications

The Structure of DPs: Some Principles, Parameters, and Problems

The Structure of DPs: Some Principles, Parameters, and Problems

On some problems of (in)definiteness within flexible semantics

On the linguistic complexity of proper names

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