page_title: Determiner spreading
section_title: Swedish
hierarchical_section_title: Determiner spreading / Languages with determiner spreading / Swedish
caption_attribution_description: English: Syntax tree of the Determiner Phrase with Double Determiners adapted from Santelmann. 1993. example (26), made with mshang syntax tree generator.
context_page_description: In linguistics, determiner spreading, also known as Multiple or Double Determiners is the appearance of more than one determiner associated with a noun phrase, usually marking an adjective as well as the noun itself. The extra determiner has been called an adjectival determiner because determiner spreading is most commonly found in adjectival phrases. Typical examples involve multiple occurrences of the definite article or definiteness marking, such is found in the languages listed below. The structure of such phrases is widely discussed and there is not one conclusive analysis. Because of this, the example languages below each show unique structure where different proposed analyses have been used.
  Researchers have found when a language shows ellipsis within a Determiner phrase, and in particular those with adjective phrases, determiner spreading does not occur. Due to this, we do not find determiner spreading in languages such as Romance Languages as well as English.
context_section_description: In contrast with the optional DS in Greek, Swedish phrases that have an adjective show obligatory determiner spreading . Example (10) is marked as ungrammatical because it is monadic with respect to DS - there is only one determiner. By suffixing the noun with the determiner -en in example (11), the phrase becomes grammatical.
  (10)
  (11)
  One proposed analysis of the structure of DS in Swedish suggests that den-support, is used to support definite DPs when D cannot be satisfied in any other way. It is used as a type of feature support for definiteness; when the definite noun carries stress, den is inserted for support to the DP. The determiner den and the determiner suffix -en are in complementary distribution. This proposed structure is shown in the syntactic tree to the right; where the den has already been inserted and the -en is experiencing downward movement to suffix the noun bil .
caption: "the big car" adapted from Santelmann, L. 1993:174 drawn using mshang syntax tree generator.
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