Beschreibung
The monograph sets out to sketch a reanalysis of morpho-syntactic definiteness in the German noun phrase, standardly represented by a dedicated formal feature in Generative Grammar. The book argues that its morpho-syntactic reflexes in German can be reanalyzed as the valuation of prenominal lexical items for so-called phi-features. The main prerequisite of the approach targets the reordering of the values feminine and plural as dependents and consequently the conflation of their categories gender and number in a feature geometric approach. Therein, the study develops a novel, innovative approach to nominal agreement incorporating inflectional dependencies in, and with, the nominal domain - subsumed under the term nominal concord - in one coherent theory of the workings of the language faculty. Additionally, current technical discussions in Generative Grammar are addressed and theory-internal notions revised in the course of the inquiry, thus extending its significance beyond the empirical object of investigation.
Autorenporträt
Marco Benincasa studierte Germanistik und allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft an der Universität zu Köln. Er promovierte in anglistischer Linguistik an der Universität Kassel.
Herstellerkennzeichnung:
Narr Francke Attempto Verlag GmbH + Co. KG
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72070 Tübingen
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