This paper proposes a uniform analysis of canonical and noncanonical French and Dutch attributive adjectives. Canonically, French adjectives are postnominal and Dutch adjectives are inflected. The noncanonical counterparts are prenominal, for French, and lacking inflection, for Dutch. A review of the literature indicates several proposed locations in the noun phrase for adjectives, and this analysis utilizes three: Spec-Subj in the D-layer, Spec-Agr, and NP-internal. Adjectives in Spec-Agr produce a canonical reading, functioning like predicates of the noun phrase. The subjective nature of the D-layer and the proximity of NP-internal adjectives to N accounts for the noncanonical interpretations. The formal distinction in canonicity arises because Dutch adjective inflection is the exponent of the Agr-head, so that only Spec-Agr adjectives are inflected, and because French NP movement crosses the adjective in Spec-Agr, so that only Spec-Agr adjectives are postnominal.

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名词前法语和不屈折的荷兰语形容词*

本文提出了对规范和非规范法语和荷兰语定语形容词的统一分析。典型地，法语形容词是后名的，而荷兰语形容词是屈折变化的。非规范的对应物是法语的前名词，而荷兰语则缺乏屈折变化。文献回顾指出了形容词名词短语中的几个建议位置，该分析利用了三个位置：D 层中的 Spec-Subj、Spec-Agr 和 NP-internal。Spec-Agr 中的形容词产生一种规范的解读，其作用类似于名词短语的谓词。D 层的主观性质和 NP 内部形容词与 N 的接近性是非规范解释的原因。由于荷兰形容词屈折变化是 Agr-head 的指数，所以出现了规范性的形式区别，