Adjective orders in Cimbrian DPs
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Ermenegildo Bidese
,
Andrea Padovan
und
Claudia Turolla
Abstract
In this work we aim to give a first description of the morphosyntactic behavior of some adjectives in the Cimbrian of Luserna. This Germanic variety allows a subclass of adjectives to appear in post-nominal position. This aspect seems to be relevant, since neither colloquial Standard German nor any other German substandard variety spoken in German-speaking areas display a similar pattern. Along the lines of Cinque (2010, 2014), we argue that Cimbrian, with respect to the adnominal adjectival order, has maintained the Germanic pattern of Merge, but permits in some cases NP-Movement above the (“bare” AP reduced) relative clause projection. The fact that adjectives following the head noun are predicative rather than attributive is supported by the fact that post-nominal modifiers never show up with inflection.
Acknowledgements
This contribution was written by the authors in complete collaboration. For the formal definition of scholarly responsibility, as required by the Italian academic system, we declare that Ermenegildo Bidese draws up the Sections 1. and 2., Andrea Padovan the Sections 4 and 5, and Claudia Turolla the Section 3. The contents of this article were presented at the 38th Annual Meeting of the Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft (DGfS), AG 13: Adjective Order: Theory and Experiment (Konstanz, 24–26 February, 2016). This work is part of the project AThEME (Advancing the European Multilingual Experience) funded by the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement no. 613465. We thank the anonymous reviewers for their comments and useful feedback, as well as Eva Wittenberg and Andreas Trotzke for their editorial effort. Any inaccuracies and inconsistencies remain our own.
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Long-standing issues in adjective order and corpus evidence for a multifactorial approach
- Linear vs. hierarchical: Two accounts of premodification in the of-binominal noun phrase
- A cognitive-functional approach to the order of adjectives in the English noun phrase
- Adjective orders in Cimbrian DPs
- How real are adjective order constraints? Multiple prenominal adjectives at the grammatical interfaces
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Long-standing issues in adjective order and corpus evidence for a multifactorial approach
- Linear vs. hierarchical: Two accounts of premodification in the of-binominal noun phrase
- A cognitive-functional approach to the order of adjectives in the English noun phrase
- Adjective orders in Cimbrian DPs
- How real are adjective order constraints? Multiple prenominal adjectives at the grammatical interfaces
