What Does Possession Tell Us About Syntax? Determiner Phrases
How do we show possession in our syntax? And what does that tell us about representing nouns in our trees? In this week's episode, we take a look at determiner phrases: why we need them on top of noun phrases, how they turn some of our ideas about syntax inside out, and what they let us display in trees that we couldn't before.
This is Topic #79!
This week's tag language: Danish!
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Sources:
Much of the inspiration for the episode comes from Andrew McIntyre's mini syntax textbook: https://www.angl.hu-berlin.de/departm...
The DP hypothesis itself is usually attributed to Steven Abney's 1987 MIT thesis 'The English Noun Phrase and its Sentential Aspect' (http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/dm/the... or http://www.vinartus.net/spa/87a.pdf)
The Dutch example came from this paper here: the Dutch example, there's this chapter http://isites.harvard.edu/fs/docs/icb....
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