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....German data. In (10) we adopt a proposal by (Winhart 1997) that identifies w constituents in German by the value interrogative of a head feature, def, which plays a prominent role in Winhart s comprehensive DP analysis. In particular, discussing criteria for functional categories established by (Abney 1987), she concludes that prepositions in German have certain functional qualities that are reflected by their inheriting head values from their complement, including the def value (Winhart 1997, p. 369) The w marker, 10) thus licenses w constituents as exemplified in (11) as its fronted value. ....

....being a distinguished variety of functional category in (Pollard and Sag 1994) 9 , and that markers are functional. We investigate the issues of functionality and their status as nonheads separately. Complementizers as functional categories In seminal work on functional categories in GB theory, (Abney 1987) provides five characteristic properties of functional categories. Using Abney s criteria for functional categories, it is important to note that these properties are not defining but only salient for the classification of the tested elements, i.e. there is a significant gray area between ....

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Abney, S. P.: 1987, The English noun phrase in its sentential aspect, PhD thesis, MIT.

....German data. In (20) we adopt a proposal by Winhart 1997 that identi es w constituents in German by the value interrogative of a head feature, def, which plays a prominent role in Winhart s comprehensive DP analysis. In particular, discussing criteria for functional categories established by Abney 1987, she concludes that prepositions in German have certain functional qualities that are re ected by their inheriting head values from their complement, including the def value Winhart (1997, p. 369) The w marker, 20) thus Lexicalizing the left periphery 13 FIGURE 3 The structure of a w VF ....

Abney, S. P. (1987). The English noun phrase in its sentential aspect. Ph. D. thesis, MIT.

....i fjor. Norwegian Jon bought himself boat last year 117 tactic status of demonstratives and the question of single versus double definiteness, and (iii) the syntactic status of possessives. 2.4. Adjectival inflection and the syntactic status of adjectives In the present work I will follow Abney (1987) and Barbiers (1992) in assuming that adjectives are heads in the extended projection of N 0 , thereby resembling auxiliaries in the clausal domain. This assumption will be crucial for certain aspects pertaining to the article system. In particular it will allow us to attribute the lack of ....

....to be considered intensional functional categories, clearly not a conclusion in line with the semantically based distinction between functional and substantive categories advocated here (cf. section 2. 1) Similar conceptually based objections apply to the A as head analysis as conceived of by Abney (1987) and Barbiers (1992) They consider APs functional projections as such, but I will however argue that the problem is only superficial and a question of terminology. The crucial point for the present study is that I consider adjectives substantive categories on a par with nouns, and the projections ....

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Abney, Steven P.: 1987, `The English noun phrase in its sentential aspect', unpublished doctoral dissertation, Massachusettes Institute of Technology.

....framework (i.e. Principles and Parameter Theory Minimalism) it is now standardly acknowledged that noun phrases 2 have a domain of functional projections on a par with the domains projected from clausal functional categories such as C and I (AgrS, T, etc. Szabolcsi (1983) Hellan (1986) and Abney (1987) were some of the first to suggest that determiners head a projection above the NP level. Since Abney (op. cit. this projection is generally referred to as DP . Since then other authors, e.g. Shlonsky 2 Throughout the paper I will use the term noun phrase to refer to what traditionally has ....

....determiners, the to the class of definite determiners, and all to the class of universally quantifying determiners. The different types of determiners yield different types of semantic properties for the noun phrase they occur in. As observed by Milsark (1974, 1977) a common property 3 In fact Abney (1987) originally proposed a functional projection intervening between DP and NP which hosts numerals and other indefinite determiners as well as comparatives and superlatives. He however labelled this projection QP. 6 of noun phrases containing universally quantifying and definite determiners is that ....

Abney, Peter S.: 1987, `The English noun phrase in its sentential aspect', unpublished dissertation', Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

....Schtze (1994) in (4) 4)a. Na veoma si se lepom mestu smestio on very be 2sg. refl. nice place placed ppl. You ve placed yourself in a very nice place b. U ovu je veliku sobu Jovan usao in this be 3sg. big room J. enter ppl. Jovan entered this big room (Schtze 1994:381,401) Assuming Abney s (1987) DP structure DP [ AP [ NP [ the RT account must assume that an AP has scrambled in each case, prior to topicalization of the remaining PP (contra Franks 1998, where it is assumed AP scrambling from DP is barred) Some explanation must be found for why only NP cannot scramble out of DP in ....

Abney, S. 1987. `The English Noun Phrase in Its Sentential Aspects', Ph.D. diss., MIT, Cambridge, Mass.

....between NPs with all and simple plural definites. Consider the following examples. 22 In Winter (1998b:ch.4,1999) I propose that the noun phrases in (52) are precisely those that have such a predicative reading. The origin for this reading is claimed to be the internal structure of the DP (cf. Abney (1987)) DPs with full SPEC position are argued to be purely quantificational, NPs are treated as predicative and the intermediate D level is proposed to be ambiguous between the two readings using type shifting principles a la Partee. 26 (59) a. The members of the organizing committee met. b. All ....

Abney, S. P. (1987). The English Noun Phrase in its Sentential Aspect. PhD thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

....subject up to SpecTP to check the EPP feature of T. The option to leave the feature unerased is taken, and thus another nominal feature must be raised into a checking relation with T. At this point, the ciP is the next closest element to T which can satisfy the EPP feature, 38 Although see also Abney (1987) for a discussion of how the related issue of selection of NPs within DPs can be resolved. His suggestion is essentially that the N head within the DP is considered to be the semantic head (the DP being considered the s projection of the N) while the D within the DP is the categorial head ....

Abney, S. (1987). The English Noun Phrase in its Sentential Aspect, PhD dissertation, MIT.

....selected as (external) arguments of the N, analogous to the complement. We appeal to the theory that what are typically called NPs are in fact complements of a functional category Determiner (D) completely parallel to the way that a Verb Phrase is a complement of a functional category Inflection (Abney 1987). 6 The basic idea is that the possessor in typical nouns is a specifier of D, serving as the external argument of this D, while the NP with the lexical head is the internal argument of D. While clearly the issue deserves further study, we will assume that the content of this D is the feature ....

Abney, Steven. (1987) The English Noun Phrase in its sentential aspect. Ph.D.

....data. In (26) we adopt a proposal by Winhart 1997 that identi es w constituents in German by the value interrogative of a head feature, def, which plays a prominent role in Winhart s comprehensive DP analysis. In particular, after considering the criteria for functional categories established by Abney 1987, she concludes that prepositions in German have certain functional qualities that are re ected by their inheriting head values from their complements, including the def value (Winhart 1997, p. 369) The w marker in (26) thus licenses a w constituent as its fronted value as exempli ed in (28) ....

Abney, S. P. (1987). The English noun phrase in its sentential aspect. Ph. D. thesis, MIT.

....of number mismatch ( One of my two dogs ) as generally in ellipsis. Partitives with pronouns are also not a problem, as long as we analyse Two of them as Two F(N) of the(m) Ns (cf. Two linguists of us linguists ) with the realized as its intransitive tween them (cf. Sommerstein 1972, Abney 1987) and the semantic features of the missing noun, F(N) retrieved from the pronoun s referent and copied over to [Spec,RP] This procedure will not overgenerate Two linguists of them linguists , though how to bar the equivalent for us linguists is unclear. 12 Semantically, the fact that the ....

Abney, S. P. (1987). The English Noun Phrase in its Sentential Aspect. Ph. D. thesis, MIT, Cambridge MA.

....and whatever else might be relevant. 5 There are at least apparent counterexamples to the converse, such as nominally headed sentences in Warlpiri (Simpson 1991) and verbally headed NPs in English (Schachter 1976) though recent work in X bar theory has tried to remove some of these anomalies (Abney 1987). Information Spreading and Levels of Representation in LFG 7 Thus the original view in LFG was that semantic interpretation was done off f structure: the f structure is the sole input to the semantic component (KB:175, see also Halvorsen 1983) In later approaches to semantic interpretation ....

Abney, S. P. 1987. The English Noun Phrase in its Sentential Aspect. PhD thesis, MIT.

....for conjunction, and we deduce the cross linguistic variation from an independently motivated theory of the syntax to semantics mapping, in which a parametric difference exists in the way natural languages obtain the semantics of number. Our theory assumes an analysis of noun phrases as DPs (Abney 1987) embedding the lexical projection of the noun, NP, plus various intermediate functional projections (FPs) To the extent the analysis is successful, it supports the existence of a direct mapping between syntactically motivated functional heads and semantic functions, and speaks in favor of a ....

Abney, S. P. (1987). The English Noun Phrase in its Sentential Aspect. Ph. D. thesis, MIT, Cambridge MA.

....conjunctions, etc. Words with meaning: nouns, verbs, adjectives ffl Psychology Some aphasias selectively affect function words or content words Slips of the tongue interchange F F, C C, but not F C 125 Uniform syntactic treatment ffl Function words have subjects and complements [5] who [that] Bill saw CP Bill will leave IP far in the back PP John s [the] book DP six feet too long DegP 126 Motivation: Agreement in noun phrase ffl English: Tensed verb is first verb, not e.g. head: leaves was leaving has been leaving subj AGR VP IP possr AGR NP DP ffl Yup ik: noun phrase has ....

Steven Abney. The English Noun Phrase in its Sentential Aspect. PhD thesis, MIT, Cambridge, MA, 1987.

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Abney, S. (1987). The English Noun Phrase in its Sentential Aspect, PhD Dissertation, MIT, Cambridge, Mass.

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