By Thomas Leu
Paintings in morphology is sometimes concerned about efficient notice formation and usual inflection, in any occasion with open category different types akin to verbs, nouns, and adjectives, and their quite a few kinds. The structure of Determiners, in contrast, is dedicated to a collection of functionality phrases: the closed classification of determiners. whereas it really is normally assumed that functionality phrases are syntactically atomic, Thomas Leu exhibits that
The structure of Determiners is a treatise of a suite of functionality phrases, the closed classification of determiners. The dissection of a sequence of other determiners in German and different Germanic languages brings to mild unforeseen structural regularities formerly unexplored during this category of phrases, regularities that resemble syntactic styles common from the clause" Read more...
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Afto edho to vilvio this here the book Greek b. 52), while the inflected her-re/der-re may have a closer counterpart in the morpheme af- of afto. 6 Intermediate Conclusion I conclude that (some) definite demonstratives in Germanic are indeed complex, as Chomsky (1995) and others have suspected, with the initial consonant a definite marker d-/th- and the residue a counterpart of here/there introduced in an adjectival structure. Here/there may sometimes remain unpronounced (HERE/THERE), or surface in an allomorphic guise, as may be the case of English.
36): Is der- correctly glossed as there? And is -ä correctly glossed as Agrca ? The noun birä is feminine and its plural form is homophonously birä. But the ending ä qua Agrca is a singular masculine form (in nominative and accusative environments). Let us thus say that my treatment of -ä as strong adjectival agreement Agrca needs explaining. 37a) and (b). 37) a. the mirror (Mani Matter) b. 37b) shows that in some syntactic contexts t of dert may be absent. In fact, dertig alternates not only with derig but also with dernig.
This movement, it turns out, is akin to the V-to-C movement in the clause. The proposal is crucially in line with the constituency proposed for demonstratives in the previous chapter, and it naturally leads to an immediate unification with the syntax of verbal inflection in Germanic. The interpretation of head– modifier agreement as Spec-Head agreement and the replacement of the obscure declension class selection feature on determiners by an instance of the familiar X-to-C movement (akin to V2 in the clause) constitute a welcome simplification of the ontology of agreement mechanisms (Leu, forthcoming).