Issues in the Syntax of Determiner Phrases in Bangla / / Ambalika Guha.

• Superior document: Empirical Approaches to Linguistic Theory Series ; Volume 20
• VerfasserIn: Guha, Ambalika,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands : : Koninklijke Brill NV,, [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: First edition.
• Language: English
• Series: Empirical approaches to linguistic theory ; Volume 20.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (146 pages)

"The book investigates multiple aspects of the patterning of Determiner Phrases (DP) in Bangla and develops a set of proposals to model the underlying syntactic structure of such elements. A broad aspect of this book is to re-assert the existing argument in the DP literature that DPs appear to share a parallel structure to the clauses. The book in particular shows that the Bangla DP-internal phrasal movements are instances of discourse driven phenomena. This further leads to project a fine structure of nominal left-periphery in the Bangla DP, that has been argued in the background of the cross-linguistic evidence drawn from Gungbe, Greek, Albanian, and Russian languages. The central theoretical discussion of the book primarily revolves around the key conceptual domains of adjective movement, ellipsis, definiteness, and wh-movement in the Bangla DP"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Intro -- Contents -- Editorial Foreword -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1 Introduction to DP and Clausal Correspondence -- Introduction -- 1 DP and Clausal Correspondence -- 1.1 DP Corresponds to IP: Abney (1987) -- 1.2 DP Corresponds to CP: Szabolcsi (1989) -- 1.3 DP-Internal Movements -- 2 DP-Internal "Parameters of Movement": Cinque (2005) -- Chapter 2 Post-Demonstrative Focus Position in the Bangla Determiner Phrase -- Introduction -- 1 Pre-Demonstrative Focus and Topic Positions in the Bangla DP: Syed (2012) -- 2 Leftward Movement of the Adjective in the Post-Dem Position in the Bangla DP -- 3 Cross-Linguistic Evidence for a Post-DET Focus Position -- 4 Properties of Focus1 and Focus2 in the Bangla DP -- 5 Summary -- Chapter 3 Topic and Definiteness in the Bangla DP -- Introduction -- 1 Specificity vs. Definiteness Driven NP Movement in the Bangla DP -- 1.1 Maximality/Inclusiveness Driven NP Movement in the Bangla DP -- 2 Two Types of Definiteness -- 2.1 Anaphoric Definites Are Topics in the Bangla DP -- 2.2 Unique and Anaphoric Definiteness in the Bangla DP -- 2.3 Deictic and Anaphoric Demonstratives in the Bangla DP -- 3 Licensing Positions of the Unique and the Anaphoric Definites in the Bangla DP -- 4 NP Movement to the Topic2 Position -- 5 Summary -- Chapter 4 Ellipsis in the Bangla DP -- Introduction -- 1 Nominal Ellipsis in the Bangla DP -- 2 Modifier Ellipsis in the Bangla DP -- 3 Focalisation of the Non-Elided Adjective in the Bangla DP -- 3.1 Focus2 Position as the Escape Position of the Non-Elided Adjective in the Bangla DP -- 4 Nominal Ellipsis in the Post-Numeral Position in the Bangla DP -- 5 Non-Violation of the AOR in the Ellipsis Context -- 6 Violation of PIC in the Bangla DP -- 7 Summary -- Chapter 5 Wh-Movement in the Bangla DP -- Introduction -- 1 kon Moves in the Bangla DP.

2 Licensing Position of kon in the Bangla DP -- 3 The Co-occurrence of the Demonstrative Sei and the wh-Words in Bangla -- 4 Summary -- Chapter 6 Conclusion -- 1 Focus Phrases in the Bangla DP -- 2 Topic Phrases in the Bangla DP -- 3 Ellipsis in the Bangla DP -- 4 Wh-Movement in the Bangla DP -- 5 Further Research Questions -- Bibliography -- Index.