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The emergence of modification patterns in the Dutch noun phrase

Published/Copyright: July 15, 2009
Linguistics
From the journal Volume 47 Issue 4

Abstract

This article gives a diachronic account of adnominal modification from Proto-Indo-European to present-day Dutch. The main conclusion is that through the ages, noun phrases appear to “fold out”: they acquire their layered structure for different lexical modifiers over time. The latest stage in this process is the fairly recent development of a specific slot for interpersonal modification of the whole noun phrase. The different stages in the diachronic development are described with the layered and modular representation of functional discourse grammar (FDG).

Department of Linguistics, University of Leuven, Blijde-Inkomststraat 21, P.O. Box 3308, 3000 Leuven, Belgium. E-mail:
Received: 2006-09-04
Revised: 2007-09-24
Published Online: 2009-07-15
Published in Print: 2009-July

© 2009 by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG, D-10785 Berlin

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https://doi.org/10.1515/LING.2009.036

Articles in the same Issue

  1. Introduction
  2. The Biblical Hebrew qatal verb: a functional discourse grammar analysis
  3. The interpersonal level in English: Reported speech
  4. Illocution and Focus at the semantics-pragmatics interface in Umpithamu (Cape York, Australia)
  5. Aspects of the interpersonal grammar of Gaelic
  6. What's in a morpheme? Obviation morphology in Blackfoot
  7. Focus structure and Q-word questions in Hittite
  8. Incorporating the interpersonal: Some topic manipulation in Rembarrnga
  9. Identifiability and verbal cross-referencing markers in Hungarian
  10. The emergence of modification patterns in the Dutch noun phrase
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