UCL Working Papers in Linguistics 9 (1997)
Agreement phrases in
DP
YOUNG-KOOK KIM
In this paper, assuming that there is an intermediate functional category called Agreement
Phrase (AGRP) in DP, I argue
that an adnominal modifier such as a pre-nominal adjective or relative clause (RC) is
base-generated in Spec,AGRP. In
particular, I distinguish between Restrictive Adnominal Modifiers (RAM) and Non-restrictive
Adnominal Modifiers
(NAM), and argue that the NAM in head-final languages moves overtly out of the scope of
the determiner to Spec,DP,
while the NAM in head-initial languages moves covertly in LF. Finally I claim that the
movement of the NAM to Spec,DP
is due to a NON-FOCUS feature of the determiner and the NAM in terms of the
feature-checking theory (Chomsky 1995).
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