NDLI: Dutch Scrambling and the Strong-Weak Distinction

Content Provider	Springer Nature Link
Author	Ruys, E. G.
Copyright Year	2001
Abstract	It was first argued by Kerstens (1975) that the meaning of indefinite NP objects in Dutch is affected by scrambling. Kerstens claimed that whether an indefinite NP is [+quantificational] or not (in the sense of Milsark 1974) depends on its absolute position in the structure: it is [+quantificational] iff it is outside VP at S-Structure. This hypothesis has more recently been revived and extended to other languages by De Hoop (1992) and Diesing (1992). In this paper, I will attempt to show that there is insufficient empirical support for this generalization. Although the meaning of a structure containing an indefinite object NP undoubtedly varies with the position of the NP relative to other constituents, it is doubtful whether it can be shown that the semantics of the NP itself depends on its absolute position.
Starting Page	39
Ending Page	67
Page Count	29
File Format	PDF
ISSN	13834924
Journal	The Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics
Volume Number	4
Issue Number	1
e-ISSN	15728552
Language	English
Publisher	Kluwer Academic Publishers
Publisher Date	2001-01-01
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Subject Keyword	Linguistics (general) Comparative Linguistics Germanic Languages Syntax Theoretical Languages
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Arts and Humanities Linguistics and Language

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Dutch Scrambling and the Strong-Weak Distinction