The DP

Strange similarities

NP• LEXICAL PROJECTION

• Binding domain• Bounding node• NPs in spec are subject-

like

IP• FUNCTIONAL PROJECTION

• Binding domain• Bounding node• NPs in spec are subjects

Universal categories

• If nouns and verbs are the only truly universal word classes they should behave similarly

• We have proposed IP or a series of functional projections of VP

• We have proposed movement V->I->C • Shouldn’t there be functional projections above

NP, or the possibility of N movement?

The DP hypothesis

• Student work

• Proposed that Determiners were more important than simply specifier elements

• DP is a functional projection above NP

• Follows x bar theory• Gives NP functional

architecture

Tok Pisin Pronouns

• Functional projections above NP and below DP

• Each projection has a morpheme as its head.

• The moving element from NP, the pronoun yu moves up and collects the morphology

• Moves to D because pronouns are definite

Word order variation

• Remember– Marie fume souvent des cigarettes.– Mary often smokes cigarettes.

• French and English word order with respect to V and Adv accounted for by V->I movement in French

• Verb movement provoked by a strong [+V] feature• Different word order in the DP/NP about

movement and a D feature?

English versus French

French N movement English N in situ