The Universal DP Analysis in Articleless Languages: A Case Study in Czech
Lida Veselovska
January 2014 

The paper argues in favour of a universal DP hypothesis in articleless Czech. The data are demonstrated showing the semantic, morphological and syntactic evidence supporting the existence of a functional domain with a usually covert head above the projection of a lexical Noun. The semantic arguments are based on interpretation and binding facts. The pronominal morphology of the candidates for the lexical entries in the functional domain is compared with the Czech adjectival morphology, showing the distinction between the two. In syntactic domain the distribution and word order restrictions are demonstrated together with the results of corpora search.

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Reference:	lingbuzz/003609 (please use that when you cite this article)
Published in:	Nominal Structures: All in Complex DPs, edited by Ludmila Veselovská and Markéta Janebová, 12–28. Olomouc: Palacký University Press
keywords:	czech dp; universal dp, determiners; functional domain; word order in dps, semantics of dp, modifiers of n, semantics, morphology, syntax
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