DPs and Demonstratives

[ROOD DAVID S]

Rory,
	Are there any intonational clues, e.g. a separation of N from
dem-det that doesn't occur with n-det alone?
	David

David S. Rood
Dept. of Linguistics
Univ. of Colorado
295 UCB
Boulder, CO 80309-0295
USA
rood at colorado.edu

On Tue, 21 Feb 2006, Rory M Larson wrote:

> > Dhegiha languages also permit both patterns:
> >
> > DEM N - DET             and
> > N DEM-DET
> >
> > In the second instance the determiner bonds to the demonstrative as a
> single phonological word.  Ye-akha, $e-akha, etc. so I've always asssumed
> they are rather tightly bound syntactically.  The preposed DEMs are
> definitely distinct words.
> >
> > Bob
>
> Yes.  And DEM-DET often stands alone without any preceding noun, as a sort
> of complex pronoun.  I wonder if the N DEM-DET pattern isn't an appositive
> or resumptive pronoun relationship.
>
> Rory
>