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Determiners and Possessives in Old English and Polish

  • Artur Bartnik
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Advances in the Syntax of DPs
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Abstract

This paper examines the functional structure of the nominal phrase of the two article-less languages Polish and Old English. First, we will review the most important approaches towards the introduction of functional projections that have been proposed in the literature. Then we will argue for the introduction of the functional layer above the lexical one in both languages despite the fact that they both have no articles. We will also notice striking similarities between Old English and Polish, the languages belonging to two different families. The data will be collected, among other sources, from electronic corpora.

Abstract

This paper examines the functional structure of the nominal phrase of the two article-less languages Polish and Old English. First, we will review the most important approaches towards the introduction of functional projections that have been proposed in the literature. Then we will argue for the introduction of the functional layer above the lexical one in both languages despite the fact that they both have no articles. We will also notice striking similarities between Old English and Polish, the languages belonging to two different families. The data will be collected, among other sources, from electronic corpora.

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents vii
  3. List of contributors ix
  4. List of abbreviations xi
  5. List of figures xiii
  6. Editors' note xv
  7. Preface xvii
  8. Introduction 1
  9. The overgeneration problem and the case of semipredicatives in Russian 13
  10. Polish equatives as symmetrical structures 61
  11. Syntactic (dis)agreement is not semantic agreement 95
  12. A Note on Oblique Case: Evidence from Serbian / Croatian 117
  13. The structure of null subject DPs and agreement in Polish impersonal constructions 129
  14. The feature geometry of generic inclusive null DPs in Hungarian 165
  15. Possessives within and beyond NP 193
  16. On pre-nominal classifying adjectives in Polish 221
  17. Determiners and Possessives in Old English and Polish 247
  18. Agreement and definiteness in Germanic DPs 267
  19. Transparent free relatives 295
  20. Index 319
https://doi.org/10.1075/la.217.10bar

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents vii
  3. List of contributors ix
  4. List of abbreviations xi
  5. List of figures xiii
  6. Editors' note xv
  7. Preface xvii
  8. Introduction 1
  9. The overgeneration problem and the case of semipredicatives in Russian 13
  10. Polish equatives as symmetrical structures 61
  11. Syntactic (dis)agreement is not semantic agreement 95
  12. A Note on Oblique Case: Evidence from Serbian / Croatian 117
  13. The structure of null subject DPs and agreement in Polish impersonal constructions 129
  14. The feature geometry of generic inclusive null DPs in Hungarian 165
  15. Possessives within and beyond NP 193
  16. On pre-nominal classifying adjectives in Polish 221
  17. Determiners and Possessives in Old English and Polish 247
  18. Agreement and definiteness in Germanic DPs 267
  19. Transparent free relatives 295
  20. Index 319
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