Semantic Correlates of the NP/DP Parameter

Semantic correlates of the DP/NP parameter

Semantic Priming Effect on Relative Clause Attachment Ambiguity Resolution in L2

This study examined whether processing ambiguous sentences containing relative clauses (RCs) following a complex determiner phrase (DP) by Persian-speaking learners of L2 English with different proficiency and working memory capacities (WMCs) is affected by semantic priming. The semantic relationship studied was one between the subject/verb of the main clause and one of the DPs in the complex D...

Nominal Functional Categories in Korean: A Comparative Study with Languages with DP*

The goal of this paper is to determine major functional categories concerning NPs in Korean and to characterize them in comparison with determiners in articled languages. D in languages with DP crucially has syntactic and semantic roles for NPs in such a language; it functions as the subordinator which turns them into an argument, and it has the ability to pick out a single instance of whatever...

On NPs and Clauses

In Bošković (2008a) I argue that there is a fundamental structural difference in the traditional Noun Phrase (TNP) of English and article-less languages like SC, which can be captured if DP is not even present in the TNPs in (2) (see also Fukui 1988, Corver 1992, Zlatić 1997, Chierchia 1998, Cheng and Sybesma 1999, Lyons 1999, Willim 2000, Baker 2003, among others for no-DP analyses of at least...

On word order, binding relations, and plurality within Chinese NPs

We provide a semantic account of the free ordering of NP-internal elements in Chinese and argue that this provides evidence for the lack of DP in Chinese. We also extend this account to the Mandarin plural marker –men, tying the definiteness of –men phrases and its number/definiteness interaction to the classifier status of –men and the lack of DP in Chinese. We show that the binding properties...