On the evidence for partial N-movement in the Romance DP

Cinque, Guglielmo

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“…An example of this situation is an analysis of the differences between adjective-noun ordering in English and French. Cinque (1994) argues that the contrasts shown in (7) to (9) result from the parametric differences as in (10) (p. 77) PPL points out that in such an account, the word "parameter" is virtually a synonym of the word "rule." Another example is English word order.…”

Section: Criticism Of Parameterized Principlesmentioning

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Typological Generalizations and the Locus of Their Explanation (F. J. Newmeyer, Possible and Probable Languages: A Generative Perspective on Linguistic Typology)

Moriya

2008

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Section: Criticism Of Parameterized Principlesmentioning

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Typological Generalizations and the Locus of Their Explanation (F. J. Newmeyer, Possible and Probable Languages: A Generative Perspective on Linguistic Typology)

Moriya

2008

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“…Crossing another modifier results in a Relativized Minimality effect, as shown in (5) with the adverb probably blocking movement of lentement. 4 5. Lentement, ils se sont (*probablement) tous dirigés vers la sortie Slowly they Pron-REFL are (*probably) all move toward the exit 'Slowly, they (*probably) all move to the exit.'…”

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“…The structural parallelism between the noun phrase (NP) and the clause has emerged more strikingly from Abney's [3] Determiner Phrase (DP)-hypothesis and has been further developed and discussed in much subsequent work (Cinque [4], Giusti [5][6][7], Payne [8] These three domains (DP/CP, NumP/TP and NP/VP) are constituted of multilayered splitstructures. The Nachfeld is the thematic domain where the arguments merge and their θ-role is assigned/valued (Laenzlinger [10], Larson [18], and Chomsky [19], among others).…”

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“…The Nachfeld is the thematic domain where the arguments merge and their θ-role is assigned/valued (Laenzlinger [10], Larson [18], and Chomsky [19], among others). The Mittelfeld (or midfield) is the inflection, agreement and Case domain (Pollock [20], Belletti [21], Cinque [4,22]). It is also the domain where modifiers externally merge (adjectives and adverbs, see Cinque [22,23]; Laenzlinger [10,11,24]).…”

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A View of the CP/DP-(non)parallelism from the Cartographic Perspective

Laenzlinger

2017

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Abstract:The aim of this paper is to reconsider some aspects of the so-called clause/noun-phrase (non-)parallelism (Abney 1987 and much subsequent work). The question that arises is to find out what is common and what is different between the clause as a Complementizer Phrase (CP)-structure and the noun as a Determiner Phrase (DP)-structure in terms of structure and derivation. An example of structural parallelism lies in the division of the clause and the noun phrase into three domains: (i) the Nachfeld (right periphery), which is the thematic domain; (ii) the Mittelfeld (midfield), which is the inflection, agreement, Case and modification domain and (iii) the Vorfeld (left periphery), which is the discourse-and operator-related domain. However, we will show following Giusti (2002Giusti ( , 2006, Payne (1993), Bruening (2009), Cinque (2011), Laenzlinger (2011, 2015 among others that the inner structure of the Vorfeld and of the Mittelfeld of the clause is not strictly parallel to that of the noun phrase. Although derivational parallelism also lies in the possible types of movement occurring in the CP and DP domains (short head/X-movement, simple XP-movement, remnant XP-movement and pied-piping XP-movement), we will see that there is non-parallelism in the application of these sorts of movement within the clause and the noun phrase. In addition, we will test the respective orders among adverbs/adjectives, DP/Prepositional Phrase (PP)-arguments and DP/PP-adjuncts in the Mittelfeld of the clause/noun phrase and show that Cinque's (2013) left-right asymmetry holds crosslinguistically for the possible neutral order (without focus effects) in post-verbal/nominal positions with respect to the prenominal/preverbal base order and its impossible reverse order.

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“…To account for these examples, we may suppose that adjectives are generated as the specifiers of designated functional heads in the extended projection of the nominal, following Cinque (1994Cinque ( , 2009. 12 Then the syntactic structure of (34)c is as in (35).…”

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Rethinking Amharic prepositions as case markers inserted at PF

Baker

Kramer

2014

Lingua

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Abstract:In this paper we consider the morphosyntax of so-called prepositions (PrePs) in Amharic. It is typologically anomalous that Amharic should have prepositions, since it is otherwise a fairly canonical head-final language. Instead, we argue that the PrePs are really morphological prefixes that express the oblique case assigned to NP by a postposition (null or overt). What is somewhat unusual about Amharic, then, is where this prefix shows up in complex nominals. We argue that the case feature is not manifested on the first word of the NP, or the last word, or the noun head, but rather on the structurally highest element of the nominal, defined recursively. This explains the position of the PreP in nominals that have one or more adjectival modifiers, demonstratives, possessor expressions, and relative clauses, as well as its special location in verbal noun constructions. We briefly contrast our analysis with one that makes use only of leftward movement in the syntax, and we compare the distribution of the oblique case prefixes with that of the definiteness suffix -u and the accusative case suffix -n.

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On the evidence for partial N-movement in the Romance DP

Cited by 144 publications

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Typological Generalizations and the Locus of Their Explanation (F. J. Newmeyer, Possible and Probable Languages: A Generative Perspective on Linguistic Typology)

Typological Generalizations and the Locus of Their Explanation (F. J. Newmeyer, Possible and Probable Languages: A Generative Perspective on Linguistic Typology)

A View of the CP/DP-(non)parallelism from the Cartographic Perspective

Rethinking Amharic prepositions as case markers inserted at PF

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