D is not a syntactic primitive
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| Publication date | 2024 |
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| Book title | To the left, to the right, and much in between |
| Book subtitle | A Festschrift for Katharina Hartmann |
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| Pages (from-to) | 3-26 |
| Number of pages | 24 |
| Publisher | Frankfurt am Main: Goethe-Universität |
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| Abstract | The paper discusses the category D, typically taken to be the host of articles cross-linguistically. It is argued that D is not a syntactic primitive. Instead, articles are to the noun what complementizers are to the clause. Articles and clausal complementizers represent two sides of the same coin: nominal versus clausal periphery. This would mean that there is a unique phrase marker with a unique syntactic domain, the Left Periphery (LP), within which different heads may be expressed by articles heading nominal predicate structures. |
| Document type | Chapter |
| Language | English |
| Published at | https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/3FX4M |
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