ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the semantic and syntactic behavior of determiners. In the current generative framework, it is generally taken for granted that a determiner defines its own endocentric °projection in the structure of the noun phrase; cf. Abney (1987). It is taken to be the °head of a so-called determiner phrase (DP), which is located on top of the lexical projection of the head noun, NP. Schematically, example (1a) can be represented in labeled bracketing, as in (1b), or as a tree diagram, as in (1c). Note that we use the term noun phrase in a neutral way, while the terms DP and NP are used to refer to the substructures labeled as such in (1b&c).
