Determinerless noun phrases in Old Romance passives
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Anna Bartra-Kaufman
Abstract
In this paper we take the existence of Bare Noun Phrases acting as subjects or displaced complements as evidence for the licensing properties of Functional Categories other that Determiner Phrase in earlier stages of Romance Languages such as Spanish and Catalan. The fact that in Spanish and Catalan subjects in passive sentences can be licensed inside the Verb Phrase also facilitates the use of BNPs in this context.
Abstract
In this paper we take the existence of Bare Noun Phrases acting as subjects or displaced complements as evidence for the licensing properties of Functional Categories other that Determiner Phrase in earlier stages of Romance Languages such as Spanish and Catalan. The fact that in Spanish and Catalan subjects in passive sentences can be licensed inside the Verb Phrase also facilitates the use of BNPs in this context.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Preface vii
- Introduction 1
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Part 1. Synchrony – and its implications for diachrony
- Discourse binding: DP and pronouns in German, Dutch, and English 21
- Gender, number, and indefinite articles: About the 'typological inconsistency' of Italian 49
- Covert patterns of definiteness/indefiniteness and aspectuality in Old Icelandic, Gothic, and Old High German 73
- The definite article in Indo-European: Emergence of a new grammatical category? 103
- 'No' changes: On the history of German indefinite determiners in the scope of negation 141
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Part 2. Synchrony – ontological and typological characteristics
- The functional range of bare singular count nouns in English 171
- The definite article in non-specific object noun phrases: Comparing French and Italian 189
- Early functions of definite determiners and DPs in German first language acquisition 215
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Part 3. Diachrony – universally unified characteristics?
- The discourse-functional crystallization of DP from the original demonstrative 241
- Determinerless noun phrases in Old Romance passives 257
- On the structure and development of nominal phrases in Norwegian 287
- The emergence of DP from a perspective of ontogeny and phylogeny: Correlation between DP, TP and aspect in Old English and first language acquisition 311
- Demonstratives and possessives: From Old English to present-day English 339
- Index 363
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Preface vii
- Introduction 1
-
Part 1. Synchrony – and its implications for diachrony
- Discourse binding: DP and pronouns in German, Dutch, and English 21
- Gender, number, and indefinite articles: About the 'typological inconsistency' of Italian 49
- Covert patterns of definiteness/indefiniteness and aspectuality in Old Icelandic, Gothic, and Old High German 73
- The definite article in Indo-European: Emergence of a new grammatical category? 103
- 'No' changes: On the history of German indefinite determiners in the scope of negation 141
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Part 2. Synchrony – ontological and typological characteristics
- The functional range of bare singular count nouns in English 171
- The definite article in non-specific object noun phrases: Comparing French and Italian 189
- Early functions of definite determiners and DPs in German first language acquisition 215
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Part 3. Diachrony – universally unified characteristics?
- The discourse-functional crystallization of DP from the original demonstrative 241
- Determinerless noun phrases in Old Romance passives 257
- On the structure and development of nominal phrases in Norwegian 287
- The emergence of DP from a perspective of ontogeny and phylogeny: Correlation between DP, TP and aspect in Old English and first language acquisition 311
- Demonstratives and possessives: From Old English to present-day English 339
- Index 363
