The Noun Phrase in Romance and Germanic

Structure, variation, and change

Editors

Petra Sleeman | University of Amsterdam

Harry Perridon | University of Amsterdam

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One of the recurrent questions in historical linguistics is to what extent languages can borrow grammar from other languages. It seems for instance hardly likely that each 'average European' language developed a definite article all by itself, without any influence from neighbouring languages. It is, on the other hand, by no means clear what exactly was borrowed, since the way in which definiteness is expressed differs greatly among the various Germanic and Romance languages and dialects. One of the main aims of this volume is to shed some light on the question of what is similar and what is different in the structure of the noun phrase of the various Romance and Germanic languages and dialects, and what causes this similarity or difference.

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 171] 2011. vii, 283 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/la.171

Table of Contents

Foreword | pp. vii–viii

The noun phrase in Germanic and Romance: Common developments and differences

Harry Perridon and Petra Sleeman | pp. 1–22

Part I. Variation

Scaling the variation in Romance and Germanic nominalizations

Artemis Alexiadou, Gianina Iordachioaia and Florian Schäfer | pp. 25–40

What all happens when a universal quantifier combines with an interrogative DP

Robert Cirillo | pp. 41–56

Micro-diversity in Dutch interrogative DPs: A case study on the (dis)continuous wat voor ’n N-construction

Norbert Corver and Marjo van Koppen | pp. 57–88

Noun phrase structure and movement: A cross-linguistic comparison of such/sådan/solch and so/så/so

Johanna L. Wood and Sten Vikner | pp. 89–110

A unified structure for Scandinavian DPs

Susanne Lohrmann | pp. 111–126

A semantic approach to noun phrase structure and the definite – indefinite distinction in Germanic and Romance

Ulla Stroh-Wollin | pp. 127–140

Definite determiners in two English-based creoles: Specificity or definiteness?

Ekaterina Bobyleva | pp. 141–156

Part II. Change

Form-function mismatches in (formally) definite English noun phrases: Towards a diachronic account

Christopher Lucas | pp. 159–174

The emergence of the definite article in English: A contact-induced change?

Paola Crisma | pp. 175–192

On the syntax of Romanian definite phrases: Changes in the patterns of definiteness checking

Alexandra Cornilescu and Alexandru Nicolae | pp. 193–222

Coexisting structures and competing functions in genitive word order

Elisabetta Magni | pp. 223–240

Anaphoric adjectives becoming determiners: A corpus-based account

Freek Van de Velde | pp. 241–256

From N to D: Charting the time course of the internal rise of French n-words

Viviane Déprez | pp. 257–280

Index | pp. 281–284

Cited by

Cited by 2 other publications

Lander, Eric T. & Liliane Haegeman

2014. Old Norse as an NP Language: With Observations on the Common Norse and Northwest Germanic Runic Inscriptions. Transactions of the Philological Society 112:3 ► pp. 279 ff.

Roehrs, Dorian

2013. The Inner Makeup of Definite Determiners: The Case of Germanic. Journal of Germanic Linguistics 25:4 ► pp. 295 ff.

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