A morphological analysis of definite nouns in danish

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Abstract

We argue that the distribution of definiteness marking in Scandinavian DPs is best accounted for by a lexical rule converting Ns to Ds, and not by syntactic head movement. The proposed lexical rule, together with the assumption that lexical expressions can block equivalent phrasal expressions, is shown to account for the core facts about definiteness marking distribution in Danish, and is extended to Swedish and Norwegian. In addition, some previously mysterious facts about definiteness marking in DPs containing relative clauses are explained. © 2002, Cambridge University Press. All rights reserved.

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Hankamer, J., & Mikkelsen, L. (2002). A morphological analysis of definite nouns in danish. Journal of Germanic Linguistics, 14(2), 137–175. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1470542702000077

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