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Rdiger Harnisch

Dieser freundlicher Streit mit Rivalem und andern welchen Leuten. Über aktuelle Ungewöhnlichkeiten und latente Möglichkeiten in der Nominalphrase / Dieser freundlich

This paper deals with three different abnormal constructions of the noun phrase in German: nouns hold full case inflection when they are un-accompanied in the NP (von ein-em Löw-en getötet > von Löw-em getötet ‘killed by a-DATIVE_pron.infl. lion’ > ‘killed by lion-DATIVE_pron.infl.’); structural gaps of unexpressed ‘indefiniteness’ are closed (der Clown hat welche Schuhe an ‘the clown wears „some“ shoes’ analogous to der Clown hat einen Schuh an ‘the clown wears a shoe’); strong adjectives following definite articles express NP-internal ‘predication’ (dies-er freundlich-er Streit “this_strong friendly_strong quarrel” ‘this quarrel which was such a friendly one’). What seems to be deviating is quite current in language history, in dialects, and in language acquisition and offers latent possibilities of constructing German NP.

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Zeitschrift für Germanistische Linguistik, Walter de Gruyter

Print ISSN: 0301-3294
Volume: 34, 03/2007
Pages: 394 - 405

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