Nominal Phrases from a Scandinavian Perspective (Linguistik Aktuell Linguistics Today, LA 87)

Nominal Phrases from a Scandinavian Perspective......Page 2
Editorial page......Page 3
Title page......Page 4
LCC data......Page 5
CONTENTS......Page 6
PREFACE......Page 10
ABBREVIATIONS......Page 12
INTRODUCTION......Page 13
1.2 The basic syntactic structure of the DP......Page 16
1.3 The identification of D......Page 29
1.4 Indefinite DPs......Page 33
1.5 Summary......Page 39
2.2 ‘Double definiteness’......Page 41
2.3 On D and n......Page 50
2.4. Adjectival inflection......Page 59
2.5 Definite DPs in Icelandic......Page 69
2.6 Definite DPs in Northern Swedish......Page 73
2.7 Danish, including West Jutlandic......Page 80
2.8 Nouns that resist nominal inflection......Page 84
2.9 Summary......Page 90
3.2 Determiners in relative clause constructions......Page 92
3.3 Towards an analysis......Page 101
3.4 Some consequences......Page 113
3.5 Summary......Page 122
4.2 Demonstratives......Page 124
4.3 Pronouns, demonstratives and determiners......Page 133
4.4 Strong quantifiers......Page 144
4.5 Summary......Page 152
5.1 Introduction......Page 153
5.2 Postnominal possessors in Scandinavian DPs......Page 154
5.3 Possessive PPs......Page 158
5.4 Postnominal possessors with genitive case......Page 171
5.5 Postnominal pronominal possessors......Page 174
5.6 The possessive pronoun and proper name construction......Page 183
5.7 Coordination of postnominal possessors......Page 193
5.8 Inalienable possession......Page 203
5.9 The DP level......Page 208
5.10 Summary......Page 210
6.2 Prenominal possessors in Scandinavian DPs......Page 212
6.3 Prenominal possessive pronouns......Page 216
6.4 The prenominal possessor doubling construction......Page 229
6.5 The possessive –s......Page 238
6.6 Pseudopossessors......Page 252
6.7 The definiteness of possessed nominal phrases......Page 262
6.8 Summary......Page 264
7.1 Introduction......Page 266
7.2 Bare singular nominals......Page 267
7.3 Tests for predicatehood......Page 283
7.4 The size of predicate nominals......Page 293
7.5 Summary......Page 310
8.2 Variation in spellout......Page 312
8.3 Variation in movement......Page 319
8.4 Variation in possessor licensing......Page 328
8.5 Concluding remarks......Page 335
REFERENCES......Page 340
LANGUAGE INDEX......Page 353
SUBJECT INDEX......Page 356
The series Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today......Page 364