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Auteur(s) : Leu, Thomas (1972-....)
Titre(s) : The architecture of determiners [Texte imprimé] / Thomas Leu
Publication : New York : Oxford university press, 2015
Description matérielle : XIV-216 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection : Oxford studies in comparative syntax
Lien à la collection : Oxford studies in comparative syntax
Comprend : 1. Introduction ; 2. Definite demonstratives ; 3. xAP ; 4. Definite quantifiers
; 5. Ein-determiners ; 6. ADJ and INV variants among Wh- and S-determiners ; 7.
Case and syncretism ; 8. Conclusion ; References.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-210) and index
"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 für' (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"
; "The Architecture of Determiners is a treatise of a set of function words, the closed
class of determiners. The dissection of a series of different determiners in German
and other Germanic languages brings to light unexpected structural regularities previously
unexplored in this class of words, regularities that resemble syntactic patterns familiar
from the clause"
Sujet(s) : Déterminants (linguistique)
Morphologie (linguistique)
Syntaxe
Allemand (langue)
Suisse alémanique (dialecte)
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780199945238 (rel.). - ISBN 0199945233. - ISBN 9780199945252. - ISBN 019994525X.
- ISBN 9780199945245. - ISBN 0199945241
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb452556023
Notice n° :
FRBNF45255602
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