The Noun Phrase in Romance and Germanic -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Foreword -- The noun phrase in Germanic and Romance -- 1. Relatedness and (dis)similarities -- 2. Definiteness and the definite article -- 3. Position of adjectives -- 4. Function and position of genitives and genitivals -- 5. An overview of the contributions to this volume -- 5.1 Variation -- 5.2 Change -- References -- Part I. Variation -- Scaling the variation in Romance and Germanic nominalizations -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The verbal vs. nominal nominalization patterns: A first approximation -- 2.1 The Romance languages (Spanish vs. Romanian) -- 2.2 The Germanic languages (English vs. German) -- 3. The verbal vs. nominal scale -- 3.1 The verbal scale -- 3.2 The nominal scale -- 3.3 Nominal and verbal mixed properties: Summary and conclusions -- 4. Inner and outer aspect in nominalizations -- 4.1 The outer aspect projection -- 4.2 Inner aspect: The [±count] feature on ClassP -- 5. The building blocks of nominalizations and their cross-linguistic distribution -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- What all happens when a universal quantifier combines with an interrogative DP -- 1. Introduction -- 2. What all happens when universal quantifiers combine with wh-words in German -- 2.1 Data and a possible analysis -- 2.2 Derivations -- 2.3 Weaknesses in the model and a possible alternative -- 3. What all happens with universal quantifiers and interrogatives in English, Swedish and the Romance languages -- 4. Summary and conclusions -- References -- Micro-diversity in Dutch interrogative DPs -- 1. Micro-variability within the Dutch wat voor 'n N-construction -- 2. Predicate displacement within the wat voor 'n N-construction -- 2.1 Predicate Inversion and the spurious indefinite article -- 2.2 Predicate displacement in the wat voor 'n N-construction.

3. Dimensions of diversity within the wat voor 'n N-noun phrase -- 3.1 The 'bare' pattern: Wat voor 'n boeken -- 3.2 The soort-pattern: wat voor 'n soort boeken -- 3.3 The doubling pattern: Wat voor zulke boeken -- 3.4 Another soort-variant: wat soortige N -- 4. Micro-diversity in the split wat voor 'n N-construction -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Noun phrase structure and movement -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The structure of nominals -- 3. So constructions in English, Danish and German -- 3.1 Deriving pre-article so -- 3.2 Support for the predicate raising analysis -- 4. Such constructions in English, Danish and German -- 4.1 German post-article solch -- 4.2 Deriving pre-article such -- 4.3 German pre-article solch -- 4.4 Danish pre-article sådan -- 5. Summary of the derivations -- 6. Language change -- 6.1 German so and grammaticalization -- 6.2 German solch and grammaticalization -- 7. Conclusion -- Sources -- References -- A unified structure for Scandinavian DPs -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Basic data -- 2. Swedish, Norwegian, and Faroese -- 2.1 Optionality or elimination of one of the articles -- 3. Danish and Icelandic -- 4. The semantics of the articles and the adjectival inflection -- 4.1 Swedish, Norwegian, and Faroese -- 4.2 Danish and Icelandic -- 4.3 The adjectival inflection -- 5. Diachronic developments -- 5.1 The development of the definite article(s) -- 5.2 The development of the different realizations of definiteness -- 6. Towards an analysis -- 6.1 The structure of Scandinavian DPs -- 7. Conclusion -- References -- A semantic approach to noun phrase structure and the definite - indefinite distinction in Germanic and Romance -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Theoretical assumptions -- 3. A broad outline of the proposal -- 3.1 The N-domain -- 3.2 The D-domain -- 3.3 The positions of attributes.

4. The semantic implications of definite and indefinite noun phrases -- 5. Noun phrases in Germanic and Romance - a comparison -- 5.1 The derivation of noun phrases in Germanic -- 5.2 The derivation of noun phrases in Romance -- 5.3 The use of definite and indefinite noun phrases in Germanic and Romance -- References -- Definite determiners in two English-based creoles -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Setting the stage -- 2.1 Jamaican Creole and Sranan: Their social and linguistic history -- 2.2 The noun phrase in Jamaican Creole and Sranan -- 2.3 Working definitions -- 3. Distribution of definite determiners in Gbe, JC and Sranan -- 3.1 Specificity-based determiner use in Gbe -- 3.2 Definite determiners and bare definites in JC and Sranan -- 4. On the sources of the discourse-semantic and distributional properties of definite determiners in JC and Sranan -- 4.1 The sources of overt definiteness marking -- 4.2 The sources of bare definite NPs -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Part II. Change -- Form-function mismatches in (formally) definite English noun phrases -- 1. Introduction -- 2. 'Non-specific' weak definites -- 3. Relational weak definites -- 4. Conclusion -- References -- The emergence of the definite article in English -- 1. The debate on the definite article in the history of English -- 2. Requirement 2 in OE: Se and proper names -- 3. Requirement 1 in OE: Noun phrases without an overt determiner -- 3.1 Bare nouns (Carlson 1977) -- 3.2 Special lexical items -- 3.3 Other D-less noun phrases -- 4. The possible causes for the emergence of the definite article -- Sources -- References -- On the syntax of Romanian definite phrases -- 1. Aim of the paper. Theoretical assumptions -- 1.1 The problem -- 1.2. Theoretical assumptions -- 2. Long distance agree in Old Romanian -- 2.1 The lower definite article.

2.2 The extension and range of the lower definite article -- 2.3. Interpreting the facts of Old Romanian in the framework sketched in Section 1 -- 3. What the lower article suggests about the emergence of the enclitic article -- 3.1 An open question -- 3.2 Consequences for the analysis of the article: The Romanian definite article is a suffix -- 4. Contexts of occurrence of the lower definite article -- 5. The (Lower) article and the reorganization of the genitive system -- 5.1 The inflectional and the prepositional genitive -- 5.2. Significance of the statistical correlation between the lower definite article and the inflectional genitive -- 6. Other or DP patterns where agree and move operate long distance -- 6.1 Adjectives before demonstratives -- 6.2 Definite NP + Dem -- 6.3 Genitive DPs -- 7. Syntactic ambiguity and the loss of the lower definite article -- 7.1 The pre-nominal lexical genitives -- 7.2 DP-internal inverted predicative adjectives -- 8. Conclusions -- References -- Corpus -- Coexisting structures and competing functions in genitive word order -- 1. Possessive constructions and word order types -- 2. GN and NG in English -- 2.1 The diachrony of the genitive variation -- 2.2 The synchrony of the genitive variation -- 3. GN/NG in Latin -- 3.1 The situation in early Latin -- 3.2 The complex distribution of the two patterns in Classical Latin -- 3.3 Functions of the GN structure -- 3.4 Functions of the NG structure -- 3.5 Tendencies and inconsistencies -- 3.6 Sources and evolution of genitive constructions -- 3.7 Genitives and adjectives -- 3.8 Towards new word orders -- 4. Variation and change in Latin and English -- 4.1 Word order flexibility in Latin -- 4.2 The evolution of genitive patterns in English -- 4.3 The role of the sources and the phenomena of gradience -- 5. Conclusions -- Abbreviations -- References.

Anaphoric adjectives becoming determiners -- 1. Determiners -- 2. Anaphoric adjectives -- 3. Variation and change in Late Modern Dutch -- 4. Theoretical ramifications and conclusions -- References -- From N to D -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Looking inside N-words -- 2.1 Distributional evidence -- 2.2 The features and modification of n-words -- 2.3 Mapping the structure -- 3. The internal evolution of French n-words -- 3.1 Changing features -- 3.2 Modification -- 3.3 Theoretical implications and conclusions -- References -- Electronic data bases -- Index -- The series Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today.