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Jacek Kołata
WyŜsza Szkoła Humanistyczno-Ekonomiczna w Łodzi
The analysis of specifiers position
in the light of traditional X-Bar theory approaches 42
Over the last three decades or so, various authors make efforts to discover the most
fundamental elements creating a framework which explains how every human
being forms his or her utterances. Therefore, the aim of the following series of
articles is not to discover repetitively structures or processes about which so much
has been published so far, but to bring closer some crucial for X-Bar Theory
notions. The following dissertation is to illustrate and describe one of the
constituents of a typical X-Bar structure – a specifier.
Specifiers of noun phrases
Specifiers are the daughters of XP and sisters of X.
42 The following paper is based on my M.A. thesis written under the supervision of Professor
Przemysław Tajsner at the School of English, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań (2006).
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