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THE INFIECTIONAL PROPERTIES OF SCANDINAVIAN ADJECTIVES*
Author(s) -
Kester EllenPetra
Publication year - 1993
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/j.1467-9582.1993.tb00843.x
Subject(s) - definiteness , inflection , linguistics , norwegian , phenomenon , locality , head (geology) , romance languages , computer science , mathematics , philosophy , epistemology , geomorphology , geology
. This paper is about the morphology of Scandinavian adjectives in definite DPs, traditionally known as the weak paradigm of adjectival inflection. It will be argued that these morphological endings, referred to as dummy affixes, are licensed by the definiteness features in the head of DP. Dummy affixes share certain morphological and syntactic properties with anaphoric clitics in Romance languages: both are poor in phi‐features and both are submitted to strict locality conditions. The proposed analysis of dummy affixation can be extended to account for the structure of DP and the double definiteness phenomenon in languages like Norwegian and Swedish.