DPs and Demonstratives

[ROOD DAVID S]

>  Going back to an earlier part of the thread:  For nominal phrases with
> both demonstrative and article (or deictic & specificity marker or
> whatever they are), a 2-tier X-bar with the determiner (aka article aka
> specificity element) highest seems right to me.  That is, something like
> John's tree below.  (I've cleaned up the spacing so it lines up right on
> my screen... hopefully didn't mess it up for everyone else.)
>
>             DP
>              !
>             D'
>           /   !
>         NP   D
>        / !
>  DEM  N'
>            !
>           N
>  This would, as John said, nicely allow for [DEM N] and [N DEM] orders
> while keeping the article last; it also works nicely for allowing the
> "specificity" feature to spread across the whole phrase in case that
> turns out to be the right analysis of the Omaha doubled-article
> constructions above.  :-)


	The idea of 2 layers of X-bar structure works for Lakota, too, but
the details are very different, since we ALWAYS have the DEM outside the
DET, and the DET cannot occur to the left of the N no matter what.

David