Constraining Inherent Inflection: Number and Nominal Aspect

Acquaviva, P

doi:10.1515/flin.2004.38.3-4.333

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“…A first solution can be provided by the approach of Number proposed in Booij () , Acquaviva () , Alexiadou (). Specifically, they argue that there are two subtypes of Number.…”

Section: The Morpho‐syntactic Analysis Of Relational Adjectivesmentioning

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Relational Adjectives at Interfaces

Moreno

2015

Studia Linguistica

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The paper investigates the properties of relational adjectives at the syntax/morphology interface. Specifically, it proposes an analysis of relational adjectives that accounts of the mismatch between their nominal semantics/syntax and the adjectival morphology. Relational adjectives are semantically underlying nouns but they show several syntactic properties that set them apart from nouns such as deficient number, lack of anaphoric properties and incompatibility with complex event nouns. I account for these deficiencies by analyzing them as underspecified nouns with a minimal syntactic structure on a par with the one of default mass nouns proposed by Borer (2005). Moreover, positive evidence is provided for a split classification of relational adjectives as proposed in Bosque & Picallo (1996) according to which Thematic relational adjectives are arguments of deverbal nouns while Classificatory adjectives, restrictive modifiers of simple nouns. Special focus is placed on the parallel between Thematic adjectives and genitives in Romance that provides a theoretical answer to the syntax/morphology mismatch: In the spirit of Distributed Morphology (cf. Embick & Noyer 2006), I argue that the Case features of the nouns underlying in Thematic adjectives are relevant only at PF, conditioning the choice of Vocabulary Items expressing Case: the adjectival suffix or the de genitival preposition. Studia Linguistica 69(3) 2015, pp. 304-332.

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“…A first solution can be provided by the approach of Number proposed in Booij () , Acquaviva () , Alexiadou (). Specifically, they argue that there are two subtypes of Number.…”

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Relational Adjectives at Interfaces

Moreno

2015

Studia Linguistica

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“…In fact, Ghomeshi & Massam (2020) make a similar claim, suggesting that names receive a singular interpretation by default, not because of a Num projection valued as [SG]. Lastly, other researchers have argued that nP is the domain of lexical number, while NumP is the domain of individuation (Acquaviva 2004;Kramer 2016;Smith 2016).…”

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Common names and proper nouns: Morphosyntactic evidence of a complete nominal paradigm

Jambrović

2021

Proc Ling Soc Amer

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The terms "common noun" and "proper name" encode two dichotomies that are often conflated. This paper explores the possibility of the other combinations—"common name" and "proper noun"—and concludes that both exist on the basis of their morphosyntactic behavior. In support of common names, inflectional regularization is determined to result from a "name" layer in the structure, meaning that common nouns that regularize are, in fact, common names (computer mouses, tailor’s gooses). In support of proper nouns, there are bare singular count nouns in English that receive definite interpretations and seem to be licensed as arguments by the same null determiner as proper names (I left town, she works at home). Not only does a four-way distinction between nouns, names, proper nouns, and proper names achieve greater empirical coverage, but it also captures the independent morphosyntactic effects of [PROPER] and [NAME] as features on D and N, respectively.

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“…This classifier in fact has two uses in nouns phrases. As a sortal classifier, tsɛ̃1 3 is grammaticalized from the class term signaling the "inherent number" (Acquaviva 2004) of an entity, i.e., an object that is conceived as naturally occurring pairs. In this sense, a quanta classifier tsɛ̃1 3 is a "quasi-repeater" ( § 3.3).…”

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Sortal classifiers and noun categorization in Zauzou

2024

LALI

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This paper investigates the sortal classifier system in Zauzou, a Tibeto-Burman language spoken in Southwest China. Three etymological subclasses – repeater, non-repeater, and quasi-repeaters – are identified in two morphosyntactic contexts: the bare classifier phrase [n+clf] and the full noun phrase [n+mod+clf], serving as an “individualizer” that transforms unindividualized nominal concepts into referential individuals. The three types of classifiers classify nouns on the basis of different semantic parameters that differ in terms of semantic contrastiveness. Animacy, shape, size, rigidity and quanta are non-contrastive semantic parameters commonly found among non-repeaters. Repeaters and quasi-repeaters categorize nouns primarily on the basis of semantically contrastive taxonomy, meronomy, or arrangement. With respect to the function of quantification, repeaters, quasi-repeaters, and non-repeaters are identical in [n+mod+clf] but diverge in [n+clf]. They do not uniformly render the singular interpretation with all kinds of referents in [n+clf]. Non-repeaters are more grammaticalized classifiers than (quasi-)repeaters. The Zauzou data provide evidence for the development from repeaters to non-repeaters, on a par with the commonly recognized grammaticalization path from nouns to classifiers, which is conditioned by two types of “parameter shift”. This study offers a descriptive model that effectively captures the relationship between semantic-functional properties of sortal classifiers and their historical development in “repeater” languages.

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Constraining Inherent Inflection: Number and Nominal Aspect

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Relational Adjectives at Interfaces

Relational Adjectives at Interfaces

Common names and proper nouns: Morphosyntactic evidence of a complete nominal paradigm

Sortal classifiers and noun categorization in Zauzou

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