Personally, I'm sceptical of the designation "demonstrative" in general. It<br>
seems to be used to ascribe both deictic capacity and the syntactic<br>
behaviour of determiners under the same category - which is clearly NOT<br>
appropriate for Siouan. Is it possible that Siouan deictics don't c-command<br>
D at all, but are contained within NP?<br>
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- Bryan Gordon<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 2/20/06, <b class="gmail_sendername"><a href="mailto:jpboyle@uchicago.edu">jpboyle@uchicago.edu</a></b> <<a href="mailto:jpboyle@uchicago.edu">jpboyle@uchicago.edu
</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hi All,<br><br>I am just looking at noun phrases that have both a determiner and a
<br>demonstrative. I was wondering if anyone else has looked at these besides<br>Randy and Catherine (who should of course feel obligated to reply to this e-mail<br>anyway). In Missouri Valley the structure is:<br><br>Demonstrative Noun-Determiner
<br><br>I think this is true for other Siouan languages as well, correct? Has anyone<br>thought about how to analyze these constructions (specifically in an X'bar<br>framework)? Are they DPs that have a demonstrative phrase (DemP) in SPEC and
<br>an NP complement (as in 1)?<br><br>1) [[Dem P [NP ]]DP]<br><br> DP<br> / !<br> DemP D'<br> / !<br> NP D<br><br>This would make it all left branching, which is what we would assume, right?
<br><br>Or are they DemPs that take a DP Complement that then take an NP complement<br>(as in 2)?<br><br>2 [Dem P [[NP DP]]]<br><br> DemP<br> !<br> Dem'<br> / !<br> Dem DP<br>
!<br> D'<br> / !<br> NP D<br><br>This structure would be both right branching and left branching (possible but<br>not as pretty). Is there any evidence for either analysis?
<br><br>Thanks<br><br>John Boyle<br><br></blockquote></div><br>