Your ns are numbered! On linking morphemes in Dutch
The expression of number (#) within the noun phrase has been argued to vary between a high (num) and a low position, which Kramer (2014) associates with n, providing the root with a syntactic category. We argue that Linking Morphemes (L) in Dutch provide new evidence for such a split, and moreover, for a low expression of # in a language that is normally considered to have high #. By taking L to instantiate n, the presence or absence of L can be taken as a diagnostic of the size of non-head elements. Combined with recent work on Germanic compounds (Harðarson 2016, De Belder 2017) this makes a... Mehr ...
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| Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 2018 |
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Linguistic Society of America
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| Schlagwörter: | syntax / Morphology / compounding / linking morphemes / Dutch / bracketing restrictions / number marking / split number |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-26635857 |
| Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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| Link(s) : | http://journals.linguisticsociety.org/proceedings/index.php/PLSA/article/view/4313 |
The expression of number (#) within the noun phrase has been argued to vary between a high (num) and a low position, which Kramer (2014) associates with n, providing the root with a syntactic category. We argue that Linking Morphemes (L) in Dutch provide new evidence for such a split, and moreover, for a low expression of # in a language that is normally considered to have high #. By taking L to instantiate n, the presence or absence of L can be taken as a diagnostic of the size of non-head elements. Combined with recent work on Germanic compounds (Harðarson 2016, De Belder 2017) this makes a prediction about the order of modifiers in Dutch compounds, which we show is borne out