Determiner Sharing from a Crosslinguistic Perspective

Citko, Barbara

doi:10.1075/livy.6.05cit

Article published In: Linguistic Variation Yearbook 2006
Edited by Pierre Pica
[Linguistic Variation Yearbook 6] 2006
► pp. 73–96

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Determiner Sharing from a Crosslinguistic Perspective

Barbara Citko | University of Washington

Published online: 11 May 2007

https://doi.org/10.1075/livy.6.05cit

This paper examines determiner sharing from a crosslinguistic perspective. After reviewing the restrictions on English determiner sharing, it prevents new data, coming mostly from Polish, showing that these restrictions are not universal. The properties of Polish determiner sharing are further shown to be problematic for the currently most popular analysis of this construction, the so-called small conjunct analysis of Johnson (2000) and Lin (2000). The alternative suggested in the paper, based on Citko’s (2005) multi-dominance analysis of ATB wh-movement, derives the properties of determiner sharing from a structure in which the determiner is literally shared between the two conjuncts.

Keywords: multi-dominance, determiner sharing, small conjuncts, gapping, large conjuncts

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