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Query:   Sum: DP/CP parallelism
Author:  Joost Kremers
Submitter Email:  click here to access email
Linguistic LingField(s):   Syntax

Summary:   About two weeks ago, I posted the following question to the Linguist
List:(Linguist 13.1893)
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In the (generative) literature on noun phrases, there exists the idea
that the functional categories of the noun phrase are direct
equivalents of the functional categories in the clause. E.g. according
to Abney (1987), K (for Case) is the equivalent of C, and D is the
equivalent of Infl. Others, such as Szabolcsi (1987, 1994) argue that
D is the equivalent of C, and Poss (or some such head) is seen as the
equivalent of Infl or T. From what I understand, a similar
parallellism is seen between Num and Asp.

The past few days I have been trying to find more literature
discussing these parallellisms, but I have not been very
successful. So I am turning to this List. If you should know of papers
or articles discussing some of these parallellisms, even if it is just
in a single section, I would be very grateful if you would let me know
about them.

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I have received quite a number of responses to this question, for
which I am very grateful and I would like to thank (again) those that
replied.

Several people have asked me to post a summary, which I am happy to
do.

Although I have not been able to thoroughly go through all the
references yet, it seems to be the case that the parallelism that
receives the most attention is that between DP and CP. Connections
between Poss and Infl, and between Num and Asp are not discussed as
much. Some authors assume other equivalencies, such as Ogawa (2001)
who compares small v with a nominalizing projection Nz.

The parallelism between Num and Asp seems motivated by semantic
reasons, where the mass/count distinction is compared to
stative/non-stative aspect. However, the exact nature of this
parallelism is still unclear to me.

The parallelism between Poss and Infl seems motivated mainly by the
agreement between N/Possessor and V/Subject.

The parallelism between DP and CP is mainly motivated by the
observation that both D and C act as subordinators (e.g. Szabolcsi,
1994) but there is also a strong link between D and C as case-carriers
(e.g. Pesetsky & Torrego, 2001). To this I could add the observation
that both CP and DP can be the complement of a preposition.


References
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thesis, MIT. MIT Working Papers in Linguistics.
URL: http://www.sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de/~abney/Papers.html

Alexiadou, A. and Wilder, C. (eds) (1998). Possessors, Predicates and Move-
ment in the Determiner Phrase, Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today,
Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

Belletti, A. and Rizzi, L. (eds) (1996). Parameters and functional heads:
essays in comparative syntax, Oxford studies in comparative syntax,
New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press.

Bernstein, J. (2001). The DP hypothesis: identifying clausal properties in
the nominal domain, in M. Baltin and C. Collins (eds), The Handbook
of Contemporary Syntactic Theory, Malden, Mass./Oxford: Blackwell
Publishers, chapter 17, pp. 536-561.

Burton, S. (1997). Past tense as death, destruction and loss, NELS.

Cardinaletti, A. (1997). Subjects and clause structure, in L. Haegeman
(ed.), The New Comparative Syntax, London: Longman, pp. 33-63.

Cardinaletti, A. (2000). Towards a cartography of subject positions. ms.
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Cardinaletti, A. and Starke, M. (1999). The typology of structural defi-
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Carstens, V. (2000). Concord in minimalist theory, Linguistic Inquiry
31(2): 319-355.

Carstens, V. (2001). Multiple agreement and case deletion: against phi-
(in)completeness, Syntax 4(3): 147-163.

Cinque, C., Koster, J., Pollock, J. and Zanuttini, R. (eds) (1994). Paths
Towards Universal Grammar: Essays in honor of Richard S. Kayne,
Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press.

Cinque, G. (1994). On the evidence for partial N-movement in the Romance
DP, in C. Cinque, J. Koster, J. Pollock and R. Zanuttini (eds), Paths
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Collins, C. (2001). Aspects of the Plurality in Hoan, Language 77(3): 456-
476.

Delsing, L.-O. (1993). The Internal Structure of Noun Phrases in the Scan-
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Lund.

Delsing, L.-O. (1998). Possession in Germanic, in A. Alexiadou and
C. Wilder (eds), Possessors, Predicates and Movement in the Deter-
miner Phrase, Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, pp. 87-108.

Dikken, M. d. (1998). Predicate Inversion in DP, in A. Alexiadou and
C. Wilder (eds), Possessors, Predicates and Movement in the Deter-
miner Phrase, Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, pp. 177-
214.

Grohmann, K. and Haegeman, L. (2002). Resuming reflexives. Paper pre-
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Haegeman, L. (2000). Remote Possessors and Possessor Movement in West
Flemish? Relating Nominal Periphery to Clausal Periphery. Paper
presented at the Conference on Peripheral Positions, University of York.

Haegeman, L. (ed.) (1997). The New Comparative Syntax, London: Long-
man.

Lecarme, J. (1996). Tense in the Nominal System: the Somali DP, in
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Ogawa, Y. (2001). A unified theory of verbal and nominal projections, Oxford
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Pereltsvaig, A. (2001). On the Nature of Intra-Clausal Relations: A Study
of Copular Sentences in Russian and Italian, PhD thesis, McGill Uni-
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Pesetsky, D. and Torrego, E. (2001). T-to-C movement: causes and conse-
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This list is also available on my website at

http://baserv.uci.kun.nl/~jkremers/parallelism.html

I have put the references on that web page, and I have also added
links to a .txt file and a .pdf file with the references. Furthermore,
for those using LaTeX and BibTeX, I have included a link to a .bib
file with the references.


Joost Kremers
University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Department of Arabic and Islam

Erasmusplein 1
PO Box 9103
6500 HD Nijmegen, The Netherlands

http://baserv.uci.kun.nl/~jkremers

LL Issue: 13.2355
Date Posted: 18-Sep-2002
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