Abstract
This paper explores possible structures of determiner phrases (DPs) using the corpus of Li4 Zhi1 Ji4 (1573-1620) Edition of Li 4 Jing 4 Ji 4 ), the text of a colloquial Early Southern Min (1566 AD) play. First, the available structures for nominal expressions involving Demonstratives (DEM) tsi 1 , Numerals (Num) chit 4 -, Classifiers (CL) ge 5 and Nominal Phrases (NP) are of the three types: Type X1 ([+DEM][+CL]), Type X2 ([+DEM][-CL]), and Type Y ([-DEM]). Second, some of the possible structures, e.g. "DEM + NP" and "Num +NP", which do not exist in Mandarin and Southern Min, suggest different structural analyses for DPs in Early Southern Min.