Floating around in the Dutch nominal domain

In this article I investigate the internal syntax of Dutch nominal expressions like twee slangen van elk twee meter (two snakes of each two meter). The preposition van separates the quantifier elk from the expression twee slangen to which it is connected interpretatively. From a purely observational view, the quantifier could be said to be floating in the nominal domain. In this article I argue that this floating elk is an instance of so-called ‘binominal each ’. So far, discussions of the binominal- each -phenomenon have concentrated on dependencies involving material in the clausal domain. I... Mehr ...

Verfasser: Corver, Norbert
Dokumenttyp: Artikel
Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
Reihe/Periodikum: Linguistics in the Netherlands ; Linguistics in the Netherlands 2014 ; volume 31, page 26-38 ; ISSN 0929-7332 1569-9919
Verlag/Hrsg.: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Schlagwörter: Linguistics and Language / Language and Linguistics
Sprache: Englisch
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Link(s) : http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/avt.31.03cor

In this article I investigate the internal syntax of Dutch nominal expressions like twee slangen van elk twee meter (two snakes of each two meter). The preposition van separates the quantifier elk from the expression twee slangen to which it is connected interpretatively. From a purely observational view, the quantifier could be said to be floating in the nominal domain. In this article I argue that this floating elk is an instance of so-called ‘binominal each ’. So far, discussions of the binominal- each -phenomenon have concentrated on dependencies involving material in the clausal domain. In this article I show that dependencies involving binominal elk are also attested DP-internally. Syntactic issues that will be discussed in the context of the DP-internal binominal- each -phenomenon include: Constituency of the nominal expression, the nature of the DP-internal anaphoric dependency, the various manifestations of the binominal pattern, and word order rearrangements by DP-internal displacement.