Noun Phrase structure in Old English. Quantifiers and other functional categories

Studies in Linguistics And Methodology. Vol. 3

Artur Bartnik
ISBN: 978-83-7702-181-1
Stron: 210
Format: B5
Rok wydania: 2011


Contents

Acknowledgements
Abbreviations

Introduction
1. Introductory remarks
2. Terminology
3. Scope of the work
4. Data
5. Framework
6. Organization of the work

Chapter 1: The functional structure of Determiner Phrase

1. Introduction
2. The structure of Determiner Phrase
2.1. Introduction
2.2. Is there a Determiner Phrase in Old English?
2.2.1. No Determiner Phrase hypothesis
2.2.2. Problems with the Determiner Phrase-less hypothesis
2.3. Arguments for the Determiner Phrase hypothesis
2.3.1. Word order
2.3.2. Movement within Determiner Phrase
2.3.3. Argument structure
2.4. Summary
3. The structure of Quantifier Phrase
3.1. Introduction
3.2. Is there a Quantifier Phrase in Old English?
3.2.1. No Quantifier Phrase hypothesis
3.2.2. Problems with the Quantifier Phrase-less hypothesis
3.3. The syntactic nature of Quantifier Phrase
3.4. Summary
4. Other functional categories
4.1. Introduction
4.2. Number Phrase in Old English
4.3. Kase Phrase in Old English
5. Summary and conclusions

Chapter 2: Non-floating structures

1. Introduction
2. Peripheral positions
2.1. Introduction
2.2. Predeterminer position
2.2.1. Quantifiers
2.2.2. Numerals and other predeterminer constituents
2.2.3. Pronominal structures
2.3. Postnominal position
2.3.1. Quantifiers
2.3.2. Numerals and other postnominal constituents
2.4. Summary
3. Postdeterminer position
3.1. Introduction
3.2. Quantifiers
3.3. Numerals and other postdeterminer constituents
3.4. Quantifier and numeral combinations
3.5. Summary
4. Determiner position
4.1. Introduction
4.2. Possessives-determiners
4.3. Determiners-possessives
4.4. Analysis
4.5. Residual structures
4.6. Summary
5. Summary and conclusions

Chapter 3: Floating structures

1. Introduction
2. Previous analyses of floating quantifiers
2.1. Introduction
2.2. Stranding analysis
2.3. Adverbial analysis
2.4. Summary
3. Syntactic structure of the Old English clause
4. Floating quantifiers in Old English
4.1. Introduction
4.2. Floating non-nominative quantifiers: leftward movement
4.2.1. Topicalization with full-Determiner Phrases
4.2.2. Topicalization with pronominal elements
4.2.3. Quantifiers topicalized
4.2.4. Against the topicalization analysis
4.2.5. Scrambling with full Determiner Phrases
4.2.6. Scrambled pronouns
4.2.7. Scrambled quantifiers
4.2.8. Against the scrambling hypothesis
4.3. Floating non-nominative quantifiers: rightward movement
4.3.1. Verb projection raising
4.3.2. Other rightward movement structures
4.4. Further problems for the movement analysis
4.5. Summary
5. Conclusions

Conclusions
1. Data interpretation
2. Scope of the work

References