Syntax I

A weblog for CAS LX 522

October 31, 2005

proper

Filed under: Readings — Paul Hagstrom @ 6:43 pm

One thing I want to remind you of, even if it is perhaps a bit late in the day: Proper names are now DPs. Anything that can get a θ-role is a DP. But the name part itself is actually just an NP—see the handout and/or p. 260 in the Adger textbook.

The practical upshot of this is that pretty much any time you have occasion to draw a proper name, it will now have a structure like these:

       DP                DP                       DP
      /  \              /  \                     /  \
    D      NP          D     NP                D      NP
 ∅proper   Pat      ∅proper  New Jersey      ∅proper   Qdoba

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