Eintrag

Titel

Preposition-determiner amalgams in German and French at the syntax-morphology interface

Personen

Patricia Cabredo Hofherr

Jahr

2012

Typ

Aufsatz

Verlag

John Benjamins Publishing Co.

Ort

Amsterdam, Philadelphia

Seiten

99 - 132

In

Comparative Germanic Syntax. The state of the art

Sprache(n)

Deutsch
Französisch

Schlagwörter

Determinantien
Kontrastiv
Präposition

Abstract

The present paper examines preposition+determiner amalgams in French and German. I show that French and German P+D amalgams differ with respect to coordination: while German amalgams are transparent for coordination, French amalgams block certain coordinations. I propose that this is due to ta syntactic difference: German P+D amalgams correspond to two positions in the syntax, while French P+D amalgams occupy only one position. Adopting a model where morphology is split applying before and after the syntax, I argue that this syntactic difference of P+D amalgams corresponds to a morphological difference: German amalgams are post-syntactic contractions while French amalgams are inflected prepositions that enter the syntax as a single unit.

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