Layers in the Determiner Phrase

by Zamparelli,Rob

• ISBN13: 9780815337690
• ISBN10: 0815337698
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-06-27
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The main topic of this work is the interaction between syntactic structure and meaning within the noun phrase, with data drawn primarily from English and Italian. The book proposes a strict mapping between semantic types and syntactic projections (or "layers") within the noun phrase, and assigns different positions to 'strong' determiners (in the sense of Milsark, 1974), and determiners which may appear in predicate nominals.

Table of Contents

Introduction	3	(7)
Preliminaries	7	(32)
Semantics preliminaries: type-shifting	7	(13)
Problems for invisible type-shifting operators	10	(1)
Type-shifting and specificity	11	(2)
Quantifiers: e-type at LF	13	(2)
Introduction to the layer system	15	(1)
The PDP layer	16	(2)
The KIP Layer	18	(1)
The semantic contribution	19	(1)
Syntactic preliminaries: the DP hypothesis	20	(9)
Functional projections	21	(1)
N-movement	22	(1)
The relative position of N and attributive adjectives	23	(3)
Attributive adjectives in predicative position	26	(3)
What this dissertation is not about	29	(1)
Data	30	(2)
Terminological conventions	32	(2)
Overview of the contents	34	(5)
Notes	36	(3)
The Strong/Weak Distinction and the Definiteness Effect	39	(38)
Introduction	39	(1)
The `strong/weak' distinction	40	(6)
Existential Sentences	40	(2)
Numerals in ES	42	(4)
Treatments of the Definiteness Effect	46	(31)
Milsark (1977)	46	(1)
ES in Generalized Quantifier Theory	46	(1)
Barwise&Cooper (1981)	47	(1)
Keenan (1987)	48	(1)
Heim on WHs in ES	49	(2)
Presuppositional Set Theories of ES	51	(6)
The ``A Certain PN'' Construction	57	(2)
McNally (1992)	59	(1)
Predicate nominals and ES-internal noun phrases: some similarities	60	(1)
A split analysis of DE	60	(3)
Semantics of McNally (1992)	63	(2)
Criticism of McNally's account	65	(1)
Two ``be''?	65	(1)
On the subkind reading for common nouns	66	(1)
On the sortal uniformity of ES-internal noun phrase	67	(2)
Italian ES: locatives and existentials	69	(3)
Summary	72	(1)
Notes	73	(4)
The kind-construction and its relatives	77	(46)
Two orders of kind-nouns	77	(3)
The family of `pivotal' constructions	80	(11)
Invertibility	89	(1)
Agreement facts	90	(1)
Copular sentences	91	(9)
Moro's theory of copular sentences	94	(5)
On empty pro-predicates	99	(1)
The microstructure of the kind-construction	100	(6)
Predicate and Argument in the kind-construction	101	(4)
Identification with KIP	105	(1)
Extraction possibilities	106	(12)
Summary	111	(2)
Reasons for raising	113	(2)
Williams' puzzle revisited	115	(3)
Chapter conclusions	118	(5)
Notes	119	(4)
The layers of DP	123	(66)
Introduction	123	(8)
Some general principles	124	(3)
The structure of weak argumental noun phrases	127	(2)
Weak quantifiers as adjectives: the problem of negation	129	(1)
On the absence of multiple determiners	130	(1)
Evidence for three levels	131	(16)
Coordination and bare predicates	132	(2)
The interpretation of predicative KIP	134	(2)
Predicative possessives	136	(1)
Ne	137	(3)
On unifying Ne	140	(1)
Quantifiers under indefinites in Italian	141	(1)
(Il) quale	141	(2)
(Un) qualche	143	(4)
Conclusions	147	(1)
Spec/head licensing	147	(6)
AdjP raising and predication	149	(3)
On some differences between SDP and KIP	152	(1)
The SDmax level	153	(17)
Noun movement to SDmax	154	(3)
Longobardi's (1994) theory	157	(3)
A minimalist implementation	160	(2)
Proper names and strong quantifiers	162	(2)
Tests for `kindhood' and their results	164	(2)
An analysis for proper names and kind-denoting common nouns	166	(4)
A note on floating quantifiers	170	(3)
Semantic aspects of the multi-layer hypothesis	173	(16)
Ontological preliminaries	174	(1)
Semantics of simple predication	175	(1)
Other translations	176	(3)
The interpretation for ``kind''	179	(1)
``Kind'' and Quantifier Raising	180	(4)
Notes	184	(5)
Existentials, Locatives and Identity	189	(56)
Introduction	189	(1)
An analysis for ES	190	(30)
Moro's (1993) treatment of There-sentences	190	(3)
The logical form of ES	193	(3)
Existentials and locatives	196	(1)
The proposal: ES as the opposite of locatives	197	(3)
Further issues: familiarity and negation	200	(1)
Locative identity: Alvar Aalto revisited	200	(2)
On negation in ES	202	(4)
Syntactic aspects: the extraction facts revisited	206	(3)
On double clitics	209	(1)
ES in Italian: ci as pro-argument and ci as pro-predicate	210	(2)
Pre-copular subjects and CLLD	212	(1)
Topic LD vs. CLLD	212	(3)
CLLD and subject position	215	(1)
Italian infinitives and ES	216	(2)
Bare infinitives and Infinito Sostantivato	218	(2)
On the syntactic form of predicates	220	(7)
Equative copular sentences	222	(4)
Two interpretational strategies	226	(1)
T-definite predicate nominals	227	(13)
T-definites are predicates	227	(1)
Possible determiners in T-definites	228	(2)
T-definites as `transparent' categories	230	(1)
Sensitivity to the N complement status	230	(1)
``Consider'' small-clauses and N complements	231	(1)
Weak definites	232	(1)
Wide-scope and complements	233	(2)
An analysis for T-definites	235	(5)
Summary: interpreting DPs, the final schema	240	(5)
Notes	241	(4)
Numerals and Specificity	245	(34)
Introduction	245	(5)
On some arguments for `Referentiality'	247	(3)
The post-D position of numerals	250	(8)
Introducing partitives	250	(2)
The double force of partitives	252	(1)
Barker's (1998) analysis of partitives	253	(1)
My analysis of partitives	254	(2)
Partitives after definites	256	(1)
`Exactly' interpretation in post-D position	257	(1)
Vague numerals vs. cardinal numerals	258	(12)
Syntactic motivations for a head/XP distinction	259	(7)
Complex determiners	266	(3)
Some open questions	269	(1)
Some remarks on terms of specificity	270	(9)
Reasoning by opposites: Italian ``Qualsiasi''	271	(1)
The data: Universal and Existential ``qualsiasi''	272	(4)
Notes	276	(3)
The Internal Structure of AdjPs	279	(18)
Introduction	279	(1)
Evidence for partial head-movement within AdjP	280	(9)
Adjectives with Measure Phrases	280	(2)
The position of measure phrases	282	(2)
Degree Phrases	284	(3)
Default readings	287	(2)
Pro-forms for [Spec, DegP]	289	(4)
Presuppositions and the level of attachment of MPs	291	(2)
Some notes on DegP across categories	293	(3)
Conclusions	296	(1)
Notes	297