A structural–functional account of NP-internal mood

DP-Internal NP Movement

In this paper I show that there are clause-like NP-movements within the DP. There have been various proposals for N-movement within the DP (Bernstein 1993, Longobardi 1994 etc.) but none concerning NP-movement. I show that in Bangla (Bengali) at least two types of DP-internal NP movements take place, both of which are due to specificity. The analysis offered, in terms of a difference between nP...

A combinatory account of internal structure

Traditional combinatory logic is able to represent all Turing computable functions on natural numbers, but there are effectively calculable functions on the combinators themselves that cannot be so represented, because they have direct access to the internal structure of their arguments. Some of this expressive power is captured by adding a factorisation combinator. It supports structural equal...

NP-internal agreement and the structure of the noun phrase

For the analysis of the noun phrase, the treatment which currently prevails in generative grammar is the one in which the head of the noun phrase is identified with the determiner, rather than with the noun. This D(et)P treatment has the advantage of providing a uniform account of all syntactic categories, both the substantive and the functional ones, and it provides a natural way to capture th...

Mood, definiteness and specificity: a linguistic and a philosophical account of their similarities and differences

Mood Dependent Memory for Internal Versus External Events

Events that originate through internal mental operations such as reasoning, imagination, and thought may be more colored by or connected to one's current mood than are those that emanate from external sources. If so, then a shift in mood state, between the occasions of event encoding and event retrieval, should have a greater adverse impact on one's memory for internal than for external events....