Some notes on adjectival articles in Albanian

Campos, Héctor

doi:10.1016/j.lingua.2008.09.014

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“…All informants were given 28 objects contrasting in shape, colour and size. The aim was to lead the speakers to contrast the objects through a restrictive use of attributive adjectives (a feature of Greek polydefinites according to Campos andStavrou 2004: 141, Lekakou andSzendrői 2012: 125-129).…”

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“…5 The Albanian definite article is a (second-position phrasal) postposed suffix/clitic (Lyons 1999: 71, 75-76) or ending (Androutsopoulou 2001: 162). 6 DET, originally a definite article (Lyons 1999: 79-80), is an adjectival article/determiner obligatorily occurring before class-2 adjectives in definite and indefinite NPs (see Campos (2008) for an extensive account on Albanian DET). 7 Structures in brackets are possible only with certain adjectives or in particular contexts.…”

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Syntactic doubling and variation

Tirard

2017

Studies in Language Variation

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This paper analyses a case of syntactic doubling in Romani: the full doubling of the definite article in NPs including an adjective. This structure (DNDA) is similar to the Greek polydefiniteness and displays the same grammatical optionality. A task was designed to trigger its use and submitted to Albanian Romani native speakers. The results show that an evolution in the nominal constituent order has taken place in contrastive contexts, whereby the community is still split into subgroups experiencing different patterns of language change. This doubling (DNDA) has been used as a kind of bridge from the canonical word order (DAN) to a new one (DNA). Social factors show that this process has been favoured by contact with Albanian and/or Greek.

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Syntactic doubling and variation

Tirard

2017

Studies in Language Variation

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“…We are also not first in shifting the characterization of linkers towards the agreement field. For instance, among the labels for the Albanian pre-adjectival article in the literature listed by Campos (2008Campos ( : 1009, we find "agreement clitic" (Tomić 2006) which is a fair label for what we propose as well. Cross-linguistically, the conclusion that linkers are the counterparts of inflectional agreements in the domain of syntactic heads is found in work by Zwart (2006), Philip (2012Philip ( , 2013.…”

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“…In the plural the pre-genitival article is tə as in (16), reproduced as (19c). The pre-genitival article is sensitive to the definiteness of the head noun, since it always shows up as tə with indefinites, as in (20) Arbëresh (Manzini and Savoia 2011a: 263-264) Standard Albanian data are easily available from the literature (Solano 1972;Camaj 1984;Turano 2004;Campos 2008) and will not be reproduced here. In (21)-(23), however, we summarize the dialectal variation between standard Albanian and the Arbëresh of Vena.…”

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Linkers and agreement

Franco

Manzini

Savoia

2015

The Linguistic Review

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In many languages a linker element is inserted between a noun N and a modifier or a complement of N. We focus on Albanian articles and on Iranian ezafes, and we introduce comparison data from Aromanian. In section 2, we provide arguments as to why currently available formal theories of linkers (as copulas, as case assigners, as means for identity avoidance) face problems when applied to Albanian or Kurdish. In section 3 we argue, on the basis of morphological, syntactic and interpretive evidence, that linkers (at least in the languages considered) form a constituent with the A(P) that follows them and that their category is D. Section 4 contains the theoretical core of the discussion. A linker D and a determiner D have in common the fact that they are both able to satisfy argument slots of a predicative head (e.g. A). However a D closing off a DP is an operator, establishing a relation between a restrictor (the NP) and a domain of quantification (a VP). A linker D is a bound variable -it provides a satisfaction for a theta-role ultimately bound by the higher D. A cross-linguistic typology of determiners, linkers and pronominal clitics based on this analysis is provided. In section 5 we extend the analysis to pre-genitival linkers, treating genitive case as an elementary part-whole relation, of which the linker saturates the external argument (the possessum).

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“…Albanian adjectives can be classed as either 'Class 1' or 'Class 2' 9 . As shown in Example 2.1 below, Class 1 adjectives behave like adjectives in Spanish and other Romance languages; they agree with the head noun in gender and number, and mark this agreement with an appropriate suffix (Çamaj, 1984;Campos, 2009 Adapted from 'Adjective Articles' (Campos, 2009(Campos, : 1011 Thus, Albanian provides numerous grammatical environments for gender marking. For example, a statement of one's nationality, occupation, or current mood indexes gender:…”

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The linguistic expression of gender identity: Albania’s “sworn virgins”

Dickerson

2019

International Journal of the Sociology of Language

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This article focuses on the linguistic aspects of the construction of masculine identities by the burrneshat (also known as “sworn virgins”) of northern Albania: biological females who have become “social men”. Unlike other “third genders” (Kulick, Don. 1999. Transgender and language: A review of the literature and suggestions for the future. GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 5(4). 605622.), the burrneshat are motivated not by personal identity or sexual desire, but by the need to fulfill patriarchal roles within a traditional social code. Burrneshat do not marry or engage in sexual relationships, and are thus seen as honorable and self-sacrificing (Young, Antonia. 2000. Women who become men: Albanian sworn virgins. Oxford & New York: Berg.). How do burrneshat construct and express their identity linguistically, and how do others engage with this identity? I examine the effects of social and linguistic factors on variation in the use of grammatical gender in the speech of burrneshat and others in their communities. I find that choices in grammatical gender are linked to the speaker’s relationship to burrneshat, the grammatical context of the token, and whether the token is in oral or written language. An analysis of other gendered practices confirms language’s role in building masculine identities. Situated within a culture that embraces women becoming men, this study sheds light onto the linguistic practices used by speakers in the co-construction of gender.

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Some notes on adjectival articles in Albanian

Cited by 21 publications

References 6 publications

Syntactic doubling and variation

Syntactic doubling and variation

Linkers and agreement

The linguistic expression of gender identity: Albania’s “sworn virgins”

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