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Determiners and word order in Scandinavian DPs
Author(s) -
Julien Marit
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
studia linguistica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.187
H-Index - 28
eISSN - 1467-9582
pISSN - 0039-3193
DOI - 10.1111/1467-9582.00094
Subject(s) - projection (relational algebra) , variation (astronomy) , word order , order (exchange) , linguistics , word (group theory) , mathematics , distribution (mathematics) , computer science , algorithm , philosophy , physics , astrophysics , mathematical analysis , finance , economics
This article deals with the distribution of prenominal and suffixed determiners/articles in Scandinavian DPs, and with the overall order of constituents inside the DP. Following Longobardi (2001), I argue that although Scandinavian allows the D projection to be empty under certain conditions, the D projection must be visible at PF when the reference of the DP as a whole depends on D. In such cases, either D itself is spelled out, or else a constituent agreeing with D is moved to Spec DP. The Scandinavian varieties make use of different strategies in this respect, and the result is considerable variation in the shape of the DP.