DPs and Demonstratives
Koontz John E
John.Koontz at colorado.edu
Wed Feb 22 08:18:46 UTC 2006
On Mon, 20 Feb 2006 jpboyle at uchicago.edu wrote:
> I am just looking at noun phrases that have both a determiner and a
> demonstrative.
> 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]
[ [DemP [ NP ] ] DP] right?
> 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 [ [ NP DP ] ] ] right?
Not to forget where this started, if I understood David and Rory, and if I
am not to X-Bar impaired to be useful, I make it the first. Forms like Dh
N dem=det and Da N=det dem represent two successive DemP's.
Is it quite right to say DemP and DP in these examples? Isn't it more
like DetP => [ [ DemP ] Det ] and DemP => [Dem [ NP ] ]?
I don't quite see how to say that in Dh Dem alone is OK, and NP alone, but
not Det alone: it has to be NP=Det or Dem=Det. I think in Dakotan it is
Dem or NP alone is OK, not not Det: it has to be NP=Det.
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