Your ns are numbered! On linking morphemes in Dutch
Publisher's version (útgefin grein) ; The expression of number (#) within the noun phrase has been argued tovary 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 (Harðarso... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2018 |
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Linguistic Society of America
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Schlagwörter: | Compounding / Linking morphemes / Dutch / Bracketing restrictions / Number marking / Hollenska / Málvísindi / Málmyndunarfræði |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-27420554 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11815/1935 |
Publisher's version (útgefin grein) ; The expression of number (#) within the noun phrase has been argued tovary 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 (Harðarson2016, De Belder 2017) this makes a prediction about the order of modifiers in Dutch compounds, which we show is borne out ; Icelandic Centre for Research (Rannis) 173950 ; Peer reviewed