Editing Determiner phrase (section)

===Genitives===
The NP-analysis is consistent with the observation that genitive case in languages like German can have the option to appear before or after the noun, whereby the meaning remains largely the same, as illustrated with the following examples:

::a. das Haus '''meines Bruders''' 'the house of.my brother'
::b. '''meines Bruders''' Haus 'my brother's house'

::a. die Arbeit '''seines Onkels''' 'the work of.his uncle'
::b. '''seines Onkels''' Arbeit 'his uncle's work'

While the b-phrases are somewhat archaic, they still occur on occasion in elevated registers. The fact that the genitive NPs ''meines Bruders'' and ''seines Onkels'' can precede or follow the noun is telling, since it suggests that the hierarchical analysis of the two variants should be similar in a way that accommodates the almost synonymous meanings. On the NP-analysis, these data are not a problem because in both cases, the genitive expression is a dependent of the noun. The DP-analysis, in contrast, is challenged because in the b-variants, it takes the genitive expression to be head over the noun. In other words, the DP-analysis has to account for the fact that the meaning remains consistent despite the quite different structures across the two variants.