DPs and Demonstratives

[Bryan Gordon]

Personally, I'm sceptical of the designation "demonstrative" in general. It
seems to be used to ascribe both deictic capacity and the syntactic
behaviour of determiners under the same category - which is clearly NOT
appropriate for Siouan. Is it possible that Siouan deictics don't c-command
D at all, but are contained within NP?

- Bryan Gordon

On 2/20/06, jpboyle at uchicago.edu <jpboyle at uchicago.edu> wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> I am just looking at noun phrases that have both a determiner and a
> demonstrative.  I was wondering if anyone else has looked at these besides
> Randy and Catherine (who should of course feel obligated to reply to this
> e-mail
> anyway).  In Missouri Valley the structure is:
>
> Demonstrative Noun-Determiner
>
> I think this is true for other Siouan languages as well, correct? Has
> anyone
> thought about how to analyze these constructions (specifically in an X'bar
> framework)?  Are they DPs that have a demonstrative phrase (DemP) in SPEC
> and
> an NP complement (as in 1)?
>
> 1) [[Dem P [NP ]]DP]
>
>             DP
>             / !
>   DemP   D'
>             /  !
>          NP  D
>
> This would make it all left branching, which is what we would assume,
> right?
>
> Or are they DemPs that take a DP Complement that then take an NP
> complement
> (as in 2)?
>
> 2 [Dem P [[NP DP]]]
>
>           DemP
>               !
>           Dem'
>             /  !
>      Dem  DP
>                 !
>                 D'
>                / !
>             NP D
>
> This structure would be both right branching and left branching (possible
> but
> not as pretty).  Is there any evidence for either analysis?
>
> Thanks
>
> John Boyle
>
>
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