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...

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.