Determinerless noun phrases in Old Romance passives

Bartra-Kaufman, Anna

doi:10.1075/slcs.89.15bar

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Nominal Determination: Typology, context constraints, and historical emergence
Edited by Elisabeth Stark, Elisabeth Leiss and Werner Abraham
[Studies in Language Companion Series 89] 2007
► pp. 257–286

Determinerless noun phrases in Old Romance passives

Anna Bartra-Kaufman | Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

In this paper we take the existence of Bare Noun Phrases acting as subjects or displaced complements as evidence for the licensing properties of Functional Categories other that Determiner Phrase in earlier stages of Romance Languages such as Spanish and Catalan. The fact that in Spanish and Catalan subjects in passive sentences can be licensed inside the Verb Phrase also facilitates the use of BNPs in this context.

Published online: 23 August 2007

https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.89.15bar

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