A Phi-Syntax for Nominal Concord

Download or read book A Phi-Syntax for Nominal Concord written by Marco Benincasa and published by Narr Francke Attempto Verlag. This book was released on 2018-03-26 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book focusses on the grammatical feature definiteness in German, visible in the inflection of adjectives (ein schön-es Kind vs. das schön-e Kind). It argues for an analysis of this effect that draws a connection to the visible categories of number and gender on nouns and related words rather than an abstract property. This conclusion rests on the conflation of the established grammatical categories into a single one, number-gender, which explains a vast body of grammatical phenomena in German and principles of language in general.