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D. Dissertation, MIT. Wexler, K. & Culicover, P. (1980). Formal Principles of Language Acquisition. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Whitman, J. (1987). Configurationality parameters. In T. Imai & M. ), Issues in Japanese Linguistics (pp. 351–374). Dordrecht: Foris. Wurmbrand, S. (2001). Infinitives: Restructuring and Clause Structure. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Wurmbrand, S. (2004). Two types of restructuring – Lexical vs. functional. Lingua, 114, 991– 1014. The position of adverbials* Mark R. Baltin This paper addresses the position of adverbials, and shows that we can solve the conflicting evidence for the structure of adverbials, some of which are outside of the VP and some very low within the VP, if we generate these elements outside of the verb phrase, with the object moving into a higher position, yielding the surface order.
In (4), Ex is the only reading available, and Gen is not. Note that the contrasts are not affected by Number. Let us mark the first case tentatively as [+D, +Def], to mean that there is a definite D which is overt, and the second as [ØD, ØDef], to mean that the nominal expression is determinerless (or bare) and non-definite (or indefinite). A parallel [αD, αDef] contrast obtains with respect to the so-called mass/count distinction. ’ The object reads naturally as mass (generic) in (5), and as count (existential) in (6).
In Arabic, Definite is unifying mass and count generics. In English, bare (indef) is doing so (in addition to def). One can say that Def is Kind-denoting in the (a) case, and Object-denoting in the (b) case. The mass characterization is not felicitous, however, as we will see in Section 5. Abdelkader Fassi Fehri in non-definites (4) and (6), cannot be analyzed as a (morphological) indefinite D (as it is often thought of), although the constructions are interpreted as indefinite (cf. 3 and also Ayoub (1996) or motivation).