DPs and Demonstratives

Rankin, Robert L rankin at ku.edu
Tue Feb 21 15:05:34 UTC 2006


In that case Dhegiha is a bit different.  The order I gave in my recent post is the correct one.  I don't think the structures are interchangeable.
 
Bob

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From: owner-siouan at lists.colorado.edu on behalf of Jan F. Ullrich
Sent: Mon 2/20/2006 3:06 PM
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Subject: RE: DPs and Demonstratives




Sorry John, I copy&pasted the word into a wrong order. The two structures
are:

1) Demonstrative Noun Determiner

2) Noun Determiner Demonstrative    (not Noun Demonstrative Determiner]


> Jan, what is
> the difference between
> the word orders in (1) and (2)?

To my knowledge they both have the same meaning.
It has been my impression that construction (2) is more frequent or more
prefered by speakers than (1), but I might be wrong. My text corpus hasn't
been fully tagged in this regard to analyze the frequency at this point.
But I am quite certain that the two constructions are fully interchangeable.
If anyone knows otherwise, please correct me.

Jan



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