A New Argument for Existence of the DP in Languages Without Articles

David Erschler

doi:10.1017/S0022226719000288

A New Argument for Existence of the DP in Languages Without Articles

David Erschler

Department of Foreign Literatures & Linguistics

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Abstract

In this squib, I provide evidence of a novel type in favor of the existence of the DP in previously undiscussed articleless languages: I show that a comitative preposition in the Ossetic languages cannot attach to nominal expressions that would be analyzed as DPs in better studied languages. On the other hand, nominal expressions that it can attach to are of the kinds that would be analyzed as bare NumPs.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	879-887
Number of pages	9
Journal	Journal of Linguistics
Volume	55
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022226719000288
State	Published - 1 Nov 2019

Keywords

Digor Ossetic
Iranian
Iron Ossetic
determiner phrase
languages without articles

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Language and Linguistics
Philosophy
Linguistics and Language

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