Dependencies within the German noun phrase: determiners and adjectives

• Autores: Sebastian Nagel
• Localización: Meaning-Text Theory 2007 [Recurso electrónico]: proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Meaning-Text Theory : Klagenfurt, May 20 - 24, 2007 / Kim Gerdes (ed. lit.), Tilmann Reuther (ed. lit.), Leo Wanner (ed. lit.), 2007, ISBN 978-3-86688-017-7, págs. 335-344
• Idioma: inglés
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  • German adjectives in attributive position depend morphologically on two controllers: (I) they depend on their governing nouns for case, gender and number, and (II) their declension type (strong or weak) depends on the preceding determiner. For the dependency between the determiner and the adjective Mel'cuk (2006) proposes two solutions: government or agreement. The paper discusses these solutions and their implications on the correlations between morphological and syntactic dependency as proposed in Mel'cuk (2003). Additional material is shown, which demonstrates that the situation is more complex and calls for clear criteria for a part of speech 'determiner'.