<DOCINFOAUTHOR""TITLE"FromNPtoDP:Volume1:Thesyntaxandsemanticsofnounphrases"SUBJECT"LinguistikAktuell/LinguisticsToday,Volume55"KEYWORDS""SIZEHEIGHT"220"WIDTH"150"VOFFSET"4"> FromNPtoDP LinguistikAktuell/LinguisticsToday LinguistikAktuell/LinguisticsToday(LA)providesaplatformfororiginalmonographstudies intosynchronicanddiachroniclinguistics.StudiesinLAconfrontempiricalandtheoretical problemsasthesearecurrentlydiscussedinsyntax,semantics,morphology,phonology,and systematicpragmaticswiththeaimtoestablishrobustempiricalgeneralizationswithina universalisticperspective. SeriesEditor WernerAbraham UniversityofVienna AdvisoryEditorialBoard GuglielmoCinque IanRoberts UniversityofVenice CambridgeUniversity GüntherGrewendorf KenSafir J.W.Goethe-University,Frankfurt RutgersUniversity,NewBrunswickNJ LilianeHaegeman LisadeMenaTravis UniversityofLille,France McGillUniversity HubertHaider StenVikner UniversityofSalzburg UniversityofAarhus ChristerPlatzack C.Jan-WouterZwart UniversityofLund UniversityofGroningen Volume55 FromNPtoDP:Volume1:Thesyntaxandsemanticsofnounphrases EditedbyMartineCoeneandYvesD hulst From NP to DP Volume 1: The syntax and semantics of noun phrases Editedby Martine Coene FundforScientificResearch(UniversityofAntwerp) Yves D’hulst UniversityofLeiden JohnBenjaminsPublishingCompany Amsterdam(cid:1)/(cid:1)Philadelphia TM Thepaperusedinthispublicationmeetstheminimumrequirements 8 ofAmericanNationalStandardforInformationSciences–Permanence ofPaperforPrintedLibraryMaterials,ansiz39.48-1984. LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData FromNPtoDP/editedbyMartineCoeneandYvesDhulst. p. cm.(LinguistikAktuell/LinguisticsToday,issn0166–0829;v.55) Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindexes. Contents:v.1.Thesyntaxandsemanticsofnounphrases. 1.Grammar,Comparativeandgeneral--Nounphrase.2.Grammar, Comparativeandgeneral--Syntax.3.Semantics.4.Generativegrammar.I. Coene,M.II.Hulst,Yvesd’.III.Linguistikaktuell;Bd.55.(cid:2) P271.F76 2002 415-dc21 2002028023 isbn9027227764(v.1Eur.)/1588113019(v.1US)(Hb;alk.paper) isbn9027227772(v.2Eur.)/1588113051(v.2US)(Hb;alk.paper) isbn9027227829(setEur.)/1588113191(setUS)(Hb;alk.paper) ©2003–JohnBenjaminsB.V. Nopartofthisbookmaybereproducedinanyform,byprint,photoprint,microfilm,or anyothermeans,withoutwrittenpermissionfromthepublisher. JohnBenjaminsPublishingCo.·P.O.Box36224·1020meAmsterdam·TheNetherlands JohnBenjaminsNorthAmerica·P.O.Box27519·Philadelphiapa19118-0519·usa Contents Introduction:Thesyntaxandsemanticsofnounphrases Theoreticalbackground 1 Casestudies 35 MartineCoeneandYvesD’hulst ‚1. DeterminerPhrasesinOldandModernFrench 47 PaulBoucher ‚2. Onpro-nounsandother‘‘pronouns’’ 71 Rose-MarieDéchaineandMartinaWiltschko ‚3. ModificationintheBalkannominalexpression: Anaccountofthe(A)NA:AN(A)ordercontrast 91 MilaDimitrova-Vulchanova ‚4. Subnominalemptycategoriesassubordinatetopics 119 PetraSleeman ‚5. ‘Transparent’freerelativesasaspecialinstance of‘standard’freerelatives 139 AlexanderGrosu ‚6. ResolvingnumberambiguitiesinSakha: EvidencefortheDeterminerPhraseasaprocessingdomain 179 EdithKaanandNadezhdaVinokurova ‚7. Weakindefinites 195 GregCarlson ‚8. Predicate–argumentmismatchesandtheadjectivaltheory ofindefinites 211 FredLandman ‚9. Determinerlessnouns:Aparametricmappingtheory 239 GiuseppeLongobardi vi Contents 10. ARussellianinterpretationofmeasurenouns 255 AlmerindoE.Ojeda 11. Generalizingoverquantitativeandqualitativeconstructions 277 JennyDoetjesandJohanRooryck 12. OnthreetypesofmovementwithintheDutchnominaldomain 297 NorbertCorver 13. Semi-lexicalnouns,classifiers,andtheinterpretation(s) ofthepseudopartitiveconstruction 329 MelitaStavrou Indexoflanguages 355 Indexofsubjects 356 Introduction: The syntax and semantics of noun phrases Theoretical background Martine Coene and Yves D’hulst UniversityofAntwerp—FundforScientificResearchFlanders . FromNPtoDP . DastheheadoftheNounPhrase In a traditional Principles and Parameters framework (cf. Chomsky 1981), noun phrases were commonly seen as maximal projections of a lexical head N0.ApplyingtheX¹-formattothenounphrase,thelexicalheadN0wassaidto combinewithacomplement(e.g.aPP)formingtheN¹-level,andtheinterme- diate N¹-level with an adjunct (e.g. an AP or PP). The topmost N¹-level combined with the specifier (e.g. a determiner or a prenominal genitive phrase)yieldingthemaximallevelNP. (1) a. Thetranslationofthebook. b. John’stranslationofthebook. NP Spec N¹ N0 PP the translation ofthe book John’s As obvious in example (1) and its configuration, the determiner was treated on a par with the prenominal genitive phrase. This is a very unattractive position, since the same Spec,ƒNP position was occupied by a closed class of functional heads (e.g. determiners), as well as full phrases (e.g. genitive phrases).Theidenticalcategorialstatusofdeterminers,adjectivesandgenitive  MartineCoeneandYvesD’hulst phraseswasbasicallyarguedforbecauseoftheiridenticalprenominalposition (atleastinEnglish). One of the earliest proposalsarguing in favor ofa functional head inthe Noun Phrase can be found in Brame (1982:ƒ321), who specifically states the following:‘‘...IthinkitisamistaketothinkofNastheheadofanNP.One should think in terms of DPs, i.e. determiner phrases, not in terms of NPs.’’ According to him, D(ET) is the head-selector of NP, just as P is the head- selector of PP, infinitival to of VP and COMP of S. One of the main conclu- sionsofBrame’shead-selectortheoryisthefollowing: I would go even farther to suggest that linguists’ shorthand in terms of NP is misleading.SinceDETisthehead-selectorofDET(N),ortousemoretraditional terminology,sinceDETistheheadofNP,andnotNascustomarilysupposed,it wouldbebettertoabbreviateDET(N)asDP,notasNP,andtospeakofdeter- minerphrases,ratherthannounphrases.„Brame(1982:ƒ325) . DparallelsI Abney (1986) is generally said to be one of the first to further develop the hypothesisthatthenounphraseisheadedbyafunctionalelement,identified withthedeterminer(D).Accordingtohim,asemanticprojectionismadeup ofalexicalmaximalprojectionandthevariousfunctionalmaximalprojections above it withoutintervening otherlexical head. Thelexical headis calledthe semanticheadoftheprojection—thefunctionalheadthecategorialhead. DeterminerandInfl(ection)aresaidtohavesimilarsemanticfunctions,the determinerspecifyingthereferenceofanounphrasebypickingoutaparticular member of the noun’s extension, Inflection doing the same with the verb. ConcerningSaxongenitives,theprenominalgenitivephraseistakentobethe subjectof thenounphraseand thepossessivemorpheme (’s)tobethe deter- miner.Thisway,genitivecaseisassignedtothesubjectinthenounphrasein exactlythesamewayInflassignsnominativecasetotheverbalsubject: (2) DP Spec D¹ D0 NP the student ’s N0 book Introduction:background  The parallelism between D and I is basically followed by Fukui and Speas (1986).Theyfurthermorepostulatemovementofthesubject,base-generated inthespecifierpositionofthelexicalprojection(NP),tothespecifierposition of its functional projection (DP). The parallelism between IP and DP still holds,sincethesubjectoftheverbphrasewillmoveoutofSpec,ƒVPtoSpec,ƒIP andthesubjectofthenounphrasewillmoveoutofSpec,ƒNPtoSpec,ƒDP: (3)„a. IP Spec I¹ I0 VP Spec V¹ V0 John -s t come- i i (2)„b. DP Spec D¹ D0 NP Spec N¹ N0 John ’s t book i i The previous proposals are slightly modified in Abney (1987), where he no longer takes D0 to contain the possessive ’s morpheme, but a null AGR morpheme assigning genitive case to the possessor DP (indicated by the ’s morpheme):