Dual source for indefinite pronoun-adjective combinations * Franc Marušič a and Rok Žaucer a,b a University of Nova Gorica and b University of Ottawa 1. Introduction This paper discusses structures in which indefinite pronouns combine with adjectives, as in (1). We will refer to such combinations as IP-As and to indefinite pronouns as IPs. (1) something new; someplace nice; everyone tall In this section, we will sketch two competing descriptions/interpretations of the core data (Larson & Marušič 2004 vs. Roehrs 2006); we will then outline the basics of our proposal, which combines the insights of both of those data interpretations, and claims that the apparently diverging English and German IP-A data reflect an important difference in the basic structures and should thus be given separate accounts (in line with Roehrs 2008) instead of attempting to capture them with a uniform analysis (as in Roehrs 2006). 1 One approach to deriving the structures in (1) is that of Abney (1987) and Kishimoto (2000), among others, whereby the structures in (1) are derived with movement of the (light) noun thing/place/one over the adjective, from a base configuration such as some new thing. However, Larson & Marušič (2004) point out that if this was correct, the adjectives in (1) should behave as prenominal, which is not the case. Indeed, Larson & Marušič (2004) present a number of arguments to show that the adjectives in (1) behave as postnominal. One of these rests on the observation that in English, adjective recursion is freely available in prenominal position but not, without heavy comma intonation, in postnominal position, (2), nor when the adjective is used as * We are grateful to the audiences at NELS 38, CSSP 2007, FDSL 7 and the UNG Linguistic Colloquium Series for their comments. 1 Roehrs (2008) is in principle an updated and published version of Roehrs (2006), which was circulated as a manuscript. Since we only became aware of Roehrs (2008)—which differs from Roehrs (2006) in several important respects—right before the submission deadline for this paper, we treat the two as separate papers.