The Position of Adjectives and other Phrasal Modifiers in the Decomposition of DP
Peter Svenonius
January 2007 

This paper explores the possibility that dependents of the extended projection of N can be ordered by reference to independently motivated semantic properties of the functional sequence. The dependents from Greenberg's Universal 20 are examined (Demonstrative, Numeral, and Adjective), as are classifiers, different subclasses of adjectives, and various elements of nominal inflectional morphology. The paper is in some ways a follow-up to "1...3-2" (paper number 000200 on lingBuzz), extending the ideas there about the relation of hierarchy and morpheme order to the DP.

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Reference:	lingbuzz/000329 (please use that when you cite this article, unless you want to cite the full url: http://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/000329)
Published in:	2008 in Adjectives and Adverbs: Syntax, Semantics, and Discourse, edited by Louise McNally and Chris Kennedy, pp. 16-42. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
keywords:	dp, adjective, noun, functional hierarchy, word order, syntax, semantics
previous versions:	v1 [April 2006]
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