New thread: seeking work on German(ic) nominal inflection

[Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy]

See Linguist List 14.825 (March 20, 2003).  I listed there a lot of
references on this issue that people had supplied in response to a
query from me.

I was interested because it seemed to me that the various factors
influencing how determiners, adjectives and nouns are inflected in
German could be seen as violable ranked constraints -- though
language-specific ones, rather like Wolfgang Ullrich Wurzel's
'system-defining structural principles'.  I haven't got any further
with this in the last year, due to other work, but hope to get back
on to it soon.

Good luck to Carson's student!

Andrew

>Now that the list has wakened from hibernation . . .
>
>We have a student who wants to work on inflection within the German DP
>(relevantly related systems would also be of interest), in particular the
>strong/weak/mixed interactions of marking number/gender/case on determiners
>vs. adjectives etc. Aside from work by Schlenker and Kester, is there
>insightful, especially recent, stuff she should be looking at?
>
>Thanks,
>     Carson

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