dc.contributor |
Háskóli Íslands |
dc.contributor |
University of Iceland |
dc.contributor.author |
Fenger, Paula |
dc.contributor.author |
Harðarson, Gísli |
dc.date.accessioned |
2021-02-03T14:26:04Z |
dc.date.available |
2021-02-03T14:26:04Z |
dc.date.issued |
2020 |
dc.identifier.citation |
Fenger, Paula & Gísli Rúnar Harðarson. 2020. One classy number: Linking morphemes in Dutch and German í Mariam Asatryan, Yixiao Song, Ayana Whitman (ritstj.): NELS 50, vol 2, 1–14.. Amherst, MA:GLSA |
dc.identifier.isbn |
9798680968314 |
dc.identifier.uri |
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11815/2450 |
dc.description.abstract |
Germanic compounds often contain an element referred to as linkers, (L). These elements are homophonous with inflectional suffixes, like plural or case markers, but do not nec- essarily have the same meaning or function as the corresponding inflectional suffix. This is exemplified by Dutch below where, outside of compounds, schaap is obligatorily inter- preted as plural in the presence of the plural marker, (1a). This is not the case in compounds, where schaap is unspecified for number interpretation in the presence of the L in (1b) and does not necessarily match the choice of inflectional suffix outside of the compound in (1c).
(1) Dutch (Krott et al. 2007:28)
a. schaap -en
sheep -PL
‘sheep’
b. schaap -en -bout
sheep -L -leg
‘sheep leg’
c. schaap -s -kooi
sheep -L -fold
‘sheep fold’
These L have received a wide range of analyses but typically they are analyzed as some- thing distinct from the corresponding inflectional suffixes. In this paper however, we argue, focusing on German and Dutch, that the behavior of L follows from their structural posi- tion. Following De Belder (2013), we argue that both Ls and the corresponding inflectional affixes are class markers and that the complex behaviors observed follows from their dis- tribution in the DP. Ls thus shed light on the feature system of the Germanic DP and their interactions. We furthermore propose that the presence or absence of L can be taken as an indicator of the size of the |
dc.description.sponsorship |
Rannís, styrkur nr. 173959-051 |
dc.format.extent |
1–14 |
dc.language.iso |
en |
dc.publisher |
GLSA |
dc.relation.ispartofseries |
NELS;50 |
dc.rights |
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
dc.subject |
Samsett orð |
dc.subject |
Orðhlutafræði |
dc.title |
One classy number: Linking morphemes in Dutch and German |
dc.type |
info:eu-repo/semantics/conferenceObject |
dcterms.license |
©2020 by Paula Fenger & Gísli Rúnar Harðarson |
dc.identifier.journal |
Proceedings of NELS |
dc.contributor.department |
Málvísindastofnun (HÍ) |
dc.contributor.department |
The Institute of Linguistics (UI) |
dc.contributor.school |
Hugvísindasvið (HÍ) |
dc.contributor.school |
School of Humanities (UI) |