Head-Initial Postpositional Phrases In North Sámi
Most adpositions in North Sámi are postpositions – they follow their complements in the surface order. Nouns, on the other hand, invariably precede their complements. Strikingly, when the nominal complement of a postposition has its own complement, the complement of the noun follows after the postpo...
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ftdatacite:10.5281/zenodo.1117705 2023-05-15T17:40:06+02:00 Head-Initial Postpositional Phrases In North Sámi Julien, Marit 2017 https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1117705 https://zenodo.org/record/1117705 unknown Zenodo https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1117706 Open Access Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess CC-BY chapter Book section Text ScholarlyArticle 2017 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1117705 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1117706 2021-11-05T12:55:41Z Most adpositions in North Sámi are postpositions – they follow their complements in the surface order. Nouns, on the other hand, invariably precede their complements. Strikingly, when the nominal complement of a postposition has its own complement, the complement of the noun follows after the postposition, so that the nominal phrase ends up being discontinuous, split by the postposition. This is an indication that North Sámi postpositions are prepositions underlyingly, and that the surface order is the result of the complement of P moving to the Spec of a higher functional head. The complement of the noun is however spelled out in the lower position. Neither the complement stranding approach of \citet{Sheehan2009} nor the FOFC of \citet{Holmberg2000deriving} and \citet{BiberauerEtAl2008,BiberauerEtAl2014syntactic} can fully explain this pattern. Instead, in North Sámi a more specific requirement appears to be at work, which dictates that a postposition must follow immediately after the nominal head of its complement. A similar effect is seen with possessors, which precede the possessees but also leave their complements behind in postnominal position. Book Part North Sámi DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) |
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Most adpositions in North Sámi are postpositions – they follow their complements in the surface order. Nouns, on the other hand, invariably precede their complements. Strikingly, when the nominal complement of a postposition has its own complement, the complement of the noun follows after the postposition, so that the nominal phrase ends up being discontinuous, split by the postposition. This is an indication that North Sámi postpositions are prepositions underlyingly, and that the surface order is the result of the complement of P moving to the Spec of a higher functional head. The complement of the noun is however spelled out in the lower position. Neither the complement stranding approach of \citet{Sheehan2009} nor the FOFC of \citet{Holmberg2000deriving} and \citet{BiberauerEtAl2008,BiberauerEtAl2014syntactic} can fully explain this pattern. Instead, in North Sámi a more specific requirement appears to be at work, which dictates that a postposition must follow immediately after the nominal head of its complement. A similar effect is seen with possessors, which precede the possessees but also leave their complements behind in postnominal position. |
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Head-Initial Postpositional Phrases In North Sámi |
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