Is there a DP in Old English?

Wood, Johanna L.

doi:10.1075/cilt.284.13woo

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“…It seems that over time, post‐adjective possessives were gradually ousted. This is corroborated by the observation that in the thirteenth‐century Layamon’s Brut the adjective + possessive word order is found in the more archaic Cotton Caligula manuscript, while the later Otho manuscript usually has the opposite order (Wood 2007: 175).…”

Section: Generalising Over Various Recalcitrant Np Modifierssupporting

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Do we need the category of postdeterminer in the NP?¹

Velde

2009

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The structural make-up of the English NP is a matter of longstanding debate. In this paper, a closer look is taken at a notably intricate part of it, viz. the determiner, and more specifically where it fuzzily borders on the adjective. It will be argued that any attempt to resolve the indeterminacy issues associated with this boundary needs to take the diachrony of NP syntax as a vantage point. More specifically, it will be claimed that what are often conveniently but somewhat misleadingly called postdeterminers are in fact elements undergoing a diachronic transition from adjective slotfiller to determiner slotfiller. The postdeterminer slot is hence not a stable position. 1 I wish to thank Lobke Ghesquie`re, Joop van der Horst, the participants of the Sheffield workshop 'History and Structure in the English Noun Phrase', and the anonymous reviewers for helpful comments on earlier drafts of this paper.2 PeripheralM stands for peripheral modifier, Det for determiner, Adj for adjective, and N for noun.

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“…Competing patterns of equally 'grammatical' status may occur in skewed distributions anywhere in the grammar. Carlson (1978) and Wood (2007) argue, however, that the pattern became obsolescent during the Middle English period.…”

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Do we need the category of postdeterminer in the NP?¹

Velde

2009

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“… For reasons of space we cannot enter into a discussion of the status of OE here, but we refer readers to, among others, Osawa (), who claims that OE does not have a DP, and work by Crisma (; ; ) and Wood (), who argue that there is evidence for a DP (for instance, in the form of N‐to‐D raising). …”

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Old Norse as anNPLanguage: With Observations on the Common Norse and Northwest Germanic Runic Inscriptions

Lander

Haegeman

2013

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The differences between languages with definite determiners and those without definite determiners have been the object of much research. Recently, Bo skovi c has uncovered a number of one-and two-way syntactic generalizations which serve to set these two typological groups apart. He accounts for the contrasts observed by proposing that languages with definite determiners ('DP' languages) have a DP layer, while determinerless languages ('NP' languages) lack this DP projection altogether. Since the Old Germanic languages did not have fully grammaticalized definite articles, a reasonable hypothesis to explore might be that they were NP languages in Bo skovi c's sense. In this paper we explore this hypothesis, focusing mainly on Old Norse; where possible we also discuss Old Norse's historical predecessors Common Norse and Northwest Germanic (both of which are attested exclusively in runic inscriptions). The specific NP properties considered in this paper are (A) the absence of a fully grammaticalized definite article, (B) syntactic discontinuities and free word order, (C) the absence of double adnominal genitives with transitive deverbal nouns, (D) the absence of clitic doubling and (E) the presence of radical argument drop. The paper's approach is guided by basic generative assumptions, but its focus is descriptive rather than theoretical.

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“…The attempts to replace Gly67 with the next smallest residue Ala, either destroyed the fluorescence, yielded unstable FPs 15 , or prevented chromophore maturation 16 . A thorough direct structural study of GFP variants with non-canonical chromophore tripeptides undertaken by Barondeau et al 11 concluded that substitution Gly67Ala impairs chromophore formation due to steric rather than conformational restrictions imposed by the side chain of Ala67 that has a significant van der Waals collision with the Thr63 carbonyl oxygen 12 .…”

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Structural Factors Enabling Successful GFP-Like Proteins with Alanine as the Third Chromophore-Forming Residue

Muslinkina

Roldán‐Salgado

Gaytán

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Journal of Molecular Biology

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GFP-like proteins from lancelets (lanFPs) is a new and least studied group that already generated several outstanding biomarkers (mNeonGreen is the brightest FP to date) and has some unique features. Here, we report the study of four homologous lanFPs with GYG and GYA chromophores. Until recently, it was accepted that the third chromophore-forming residue in GFPlike proteins should be glycine and efforts to replace it were in vain. Now, we have the first structure of a fluorescent protein with a successfully matured chromophore that has alanine as the third chromophore-forming residue. Consideration of the protein structures revealed two alternative routes of posttranslational transformation, resulting in either chromophore maturation or hydrolysis of GYG/GYA tripeptide. Both transformations are catalyzed by the same set of catalytic residues, Arg88 and Glu35-Wat-Glu211 cluster, whereas the residues in positions 62 and 102 shift the equilibrium between chromophore maturation and hydrolysis.

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Is there a DP in Old English?

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Do we need the category of postdeterminer in the NP?¹

Do we need the category of postdeterminer in the NP?¹

Old Norse as anNPLanguage: With Observations on the Common Norse and Northwest Germanic Runic Inscriptions

Structural Factors Enabling Successful GFP-Like Proteins with Alanine as the Third Chromophore-Forming Residue

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Do we need the category of postdeterminer in the NP?1

Do we need the category of postdeterminer in the NP?1

Old Norse as anNPLanguage: With Observations on the Common Norse and Northwest Germanic Runic Inscriptions

Structural Factors Enabling Successful GFP-Like Proteins with Alanine as the Third Chromophore-Forming Residue

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Do we need the category of postdeterminer in the NP?¹

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