By Guglielmo Cinque
ISBN-10: 0195148800
ISBN-13: 9780195148800
This quantity provides the 1st result of a long term examine undertaking, funded through the Italian executive, which goals at mapping out the high-quality sensible constitution of sentences, nominal words, and different significant words making up sentences. particularly, it examines the practical constitution of DPs (determiner words) and IPs (inflection phrases).
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Example text
2. Internal structure of the demonstrative In Spanish, in constructions in which the demonstrative este ‘this’ appears, the locative form aquí ‘here’ can be simultaneously realized. 12 I propose that in these cases the locative has only the function of reinforcing the deictic value of the demonstrative for which we assume it is specified (see section 5). In fact, the interpretation of the DP does not change if the locative is present or absent: the information expressed by este libro ‘this book’ and by este libro de aquí ‘this book of here’ are the same.
In this way, we will have constructions such as (36b). 3. Alternatively, if the demonstrative movement is not carried out before Spell-Out, as in (36a), the movement rule on the demonstrative must apply at Logical Form to satisfy the referential interpretation that the nominal must receive, which, also in these cases, can be obtained in [Spec, DP] through the Spec-Head Agreement process. 3. Therefore, I propose, for the demonstrative in Spanish, the following assumption: (41) In Spanish the demonstrative can raise to [Spec, DP] optionally before Spell-Out, but it must raise to [Spec, DP] obligatorily at Logical Form.
The first language which belongs to this group is Hebrew, as (69) shows:40 (69) a. )) ‘this/that answer’ b. )) If, in the same structure, an adjective is realized, the demonstrative always follows this modifier, (70a, c), and can never precede it, (70b, d). 40 (70) DP FUNCTIONAL STRUCTURE a. ) b. ) the-interesting ‘this/that interesting answer’ c. ) d. ) ‘this/that nice book’ The cases in (70) show that with respect to the adjectives the demonstrative appears in the same position we have found for Spanish.
Functional Structure in DP and IP: The Cartography of Syntactic Structures by Guglielmo Cinque
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