The structure of the Icelandic NP
Författare
Summary, in English
This paper develops a (QP and a) DP analysis of the Icelandic NP,
dealing primarily with prenominal modifiers and postnominal genitives. The paper argues that prenominal quantifiers and determiners head their own projections(QP and DP), whereas attributive adjectives are head-adjoined to nouns. In addition, it is suggested that the minimal NP in morphological case languages, such as Icelandic and German, is a complement of a functional head, K, that hosts an In-case feature, and attracts nouns, either in LF, as in German, or in ‘overt syntax’, as in Icelandic. Thus, the general noun-genitive order in Icelandic possessive Constructions is derived by overt N-movement to K.
dealing primarily with prenominal modifiers and postnominal genitives. The paper argues that prenominal quantifiers and determiners head their own projections(QP and DP), whereas attributive adjectives are head-adjoined to nouns. In addition, it is suggested that the minimal NP in morphological case languages, such as Icelandic and German, is a complement of a functional head, K, that hosts an In-case feature, and attracts nouns, either in LF, as in German, or in ‘overt syntax’, as in Icelandic. Thus, the general noun-genitive order in Icelandic possessive Constructions is derived by overt N-movement to K.
Publiceringsår
1993
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
177-197
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Studia Linguistica
Volym
47
Issue
2
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
Wiley-Blackwell
Ämne
- Specific Languages
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 1467-9582