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Definiteness in the Zarma determiner phrase
Legon Journal of the Humanities, 2019 Adjectives in definite Determiner Phrases of Zarma, a Nilo-Saharan language trigger an additional (suffixed/base-merged) lexical determiner; in the event of adjectives modifying nouns, definite determiners can occur with either the nouns or the ...
Waheed Ayisa Jayeola
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Determiner Phrase in Persian [PDF]
Matn/Pizhūhī-i Adabī, 2010 Surveying the structure of NP in Persian, this study tries to show that most of NP constituents are either independent of each other or they are dependent to Determiner Phrase (=DP).
reza sahraei
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On the quantified determiner phrase and quantifier float in Modern Standard Arabic
Cogent Arts & Humanities, 2023 This article provides a minimalist account to the morpho-syntax of the quantified D(eterminer) P(hrase) and quantifier float in Modern Standard Arabic. Having surveyed previous accounts, it proves that the prenominal structure is unmarked from which the ...
Khalid Lahbibi, Mohamed Yeou
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The Morphosyntactic Interface of Determiner Phrases
Open Journal of Modern Linguistics, 2013 The functional category of determiners has undergone a number of representational changes in the last half century. Beginning with Abney in 1987 and as early as work by Brame (1981, 1982) and Postal (1966), linguists began to adapt the notion that determiners were a type of functional category with phrasal structure, and not specifiers of noun phrases.
Gabrielle Klassen, John W. Schwieter
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English possessive determiner phrases and coordination [PDF]
Linguistica Brunensia, 2020 This paper suggests an analysis of English possessives and coordination that is compatible with the treatment of Germanic pronominal case developed by Parrott within the Distributed Morphology framework. On Parrott's approach, the non-possessive pronoun case forms of English and Danish result from morphosyntactic contextual allomorphy and do not expone
Jeffrey K. Parrott
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Adjective Placement in English/Spanish Mixed Determiner Phrases: Insights from Acceptability Judgments [PDF]
Languages, 2022 The present study examines the relative order of noun-adjective sequences within code-switched Determiner Phrases. Several hypotheses have been considered: (i) Order is a property defined by the noun; (ii) it is a property defined by the adjective; (iii)
Irati De Nicolás, Luis López
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On gender and number agreement in the determiner phrase: the afro-bolivian spanish case [PDF]
Sintagma, 2010 This paper provides a formal account for processes of gender and number agreement in Afro-Bolivian Spanish, a contact variety of Spanish spoken in Los Yungas, Department of La Paz, Bolivia.
Sandro Sessarego
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Situation pronouns in determiner phrases
Natural Language Semantics, 2012 Schwarz, F. (2011). Situation Pronouns in Determiner Phrases. Ms. University of Pennsylvania.
Florian Schwarz
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, 2018 AbstractNominal insertions in Moroccan Arabic-French codeswitching are very common. They typically appear as French maximal projections embedded in a larger constituent headed by the Arabic determinerswāḥədandhād. However, the reasons behind the insertion of determiners have not been clarified.
Karima Ziamari
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The Determiner Phrase Internal Structure in ngêmbà [PDF]
International Journal of Linguistics, 2015 This paper investigates the internal structure of the Determiner Phrase (DP) in ng«»mba, a Grassfields' Bantu language spoken in Cameroon, Central Africa. It is argued in this paper that ng«»mba exhibits a head first structure and the surface order of D-elements is the mirror image of their merged order. This linear order is derived via successive roll-
Achille Fossi
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