Nouns and Noun Phrases - University of Macau Library

(235) a. heel de/ (?) die/ ? deze/mijn stad
all the/that/this/my town
b. heel het/ (?) dat/ ? dit/mijn huis
all the/that/this/my house
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The proximate demonstrative examples improve up to the point of full acceptability,
however, in contrastive contexts of the type in (236). Constructions of the type in
(236a) can be normally be “simplified” by Backward °Conjunction Reduction and
NP-ellipsis, but they deliver robustly different results in the context of predeterminer
heel. While Backward Conjunction Reduction in the primed examples
gives rise to a perfectly grammatical result, the NP-ellipsis cases in the doublyprimed
examples are unacceptable (and certainly considerably worse than the
corresponding examples with pre-determiner bare al given in Section 7.1.2.1, sub
II).
(236) a. Ik ken wel heel DEze stad, maar niet heel DIE stad.
a′. Ik ken wel heel DEze ∅, maar niet heel DIE stad. [RNR]
a′′. *Ik ken wel heel DEze stad, maar niet heel DIE ∅. [NP-ellipsis]
I know AFF all this town but not all that town
b. Ik ken wel heel DIT huis, maar niet heel DAT huis.
b′. Ik ken wel heel DIT ∅, maar niet heel DAT huis. [RNR]
b′′. *Ik ken wel heel DIT huis, maar niet heel DAT ∅. [NP-ellipsis]
I know AFF all this house but not all that house
The examples in (237a-c) show that bare heel can precede not only possessive
pronouns, but also (semi-)genitival possessive phrases. The somewhat marked
status of (237c) is probably due to the heaviness of the overall construction.
(237) a. heel mijn wereld
all my world
b. heel mijn vaders wereld
all my father’s world
c. ? heel mijn vader z’n wereld
all my father his world
Example (238b) shows that bare heel may also precede nominalized possessive
pronouns. This supports the suggestion made in Section 5.2.2.5.2 that noun phrases
like de jouwe do not involve ellipsis, since otherwise we would expect examples
with strings heel de jouwe to be as bad as the doubly-primed examples in (236).
(238) a. Heel mijn fiets glimt, maar heel jouw fiets is roestig.
all my bike shines but all your bike is rusty
b. Heel mijn fiets glimt, maar heel de jouwe is roestig.
all my bike shines but all yours is rusty
Pre-determiner bare heel cannot be construed with noun phrases containing the
indefinite article een: this is shown in (239a&b) for, respectively, [+COUNT] and
[-COUNT] nouns. Pre-determiner bare heel cannot combine with bare noun phrases
either: (239b&c) illustrate this for, respectively, bare singulars and bare pluralia