Háskóli ÍslandsUniversity of IcelandFenger, PaulaHarðarson, Gísli2020-08-062020-08-062018-03-032473-8689https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11815/1935Publisher's version (útgefin grein)The expression of number (#) within the noun phrase has been argued tovary between a high (num) and a low position, which Kramer (2014) associates with n, providing the root with a syntactic category. We argue that Linking Morphemes (L) in Dutch provide new evidence for such a split, and moreover, for a low expression of # in a language that is normally considered to have high #. By taking L to instantiate n, the presence or absence of L can be taken as a diagnostic of the size of non-head elements. Combined with recent work on Germanic compounds (Harðarson2016, De Belder 2017) this makes a prediction about the order of modifiers in Dutch compounds, which we show is borne out1-15eninfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessCompoundingLinking morphemesDutchBracketing restrictionsNumber markingHollenskaMálvísindiMálmyndunarfræðiinfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleProceedings of the Linguistic Society of America10.3765/plsa.v3i1.4313