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The Architecture of Determiners (Hardcover)
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The Architecture of Determiners (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax
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Work in morphology is typically concerned with productive word
formation and regular inflection, in any event with open class
categories such as verbs, nouns, and adjectives, and their various
forms. The Architecture of Determiners, by contrast, is devoted to
a set of function words: the closed class of determiners. While it
is traditionally assumed that function words are syntactically
atomic, Thomas Leu shows that a comparative perspective on a series
of determiners - each insistently vivisected into its minimal
morphotactic segments - reveals an anatomy with properties
analogous to clausal syntax, including a lexical, an inflectional,
and left peripheral layer, as well as transformational relations
among subconstituents. Leu argues that determiners are extended
adjectival projections with a closed class minimal stem. Leu
focuses on Swiss German and German, using other Germanic and
non-Germanic languages as a comparative domain. His discussion of
the internal structure of determiners includes demonstratives
(ch.2), distributive quantifiers (ch.4), possessive and negative
determiners (ch.5), and interrogative determiners such as 'was fur'
(ch.6). His main claim - that all of these involve extended
adjectival projections - connects naturally to a discussion of
adjectival / determiner inflection in German. Chapter 3 addresses
the oft-debated strong versus weak agreement alternation in a novel
way, proposing that the adjective moves within its own extended
projection, in a way akin to verb movement to C in the clause. This
accounts for the central facts of nominative and accusative
inflection. Chapter 7, then, addresses dative and genitive
morphology, setting them syntactically apart from adjectival /
determiner inflection in a way that leads to a surprising account
of most of the systematic (meta-) syncretism patterns in German
adjectival inflection.
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