The Distribution of Gender and Number in Lunigiana Nominal Expressions

Cavirani, Edoardo

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“…Similarly, the proposed analysis seems to be the relevant one to account for the Amegliese data in (52a), as well as the Villafranchese and Mulazzese data in (52b,c). Note that, crucially, in all these examples the determiner does not show plural marking, the plural marker is overt only on the noun and linearized between root and the feminine suffix (Pomino , Cavirani ). This supports the hypothesis that in such marked cases the pluralizer is a modifier of n , as represented in (53) for the noun fantja ‘girls’.…”

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“…Among Romance language varieties that illustrate the phenomenon of lack of plural agreement within the DP, Lunigiana dialects deserve special attention (Manzini & Savoia , Rasom , Pomino , Cavirani ). Thus, whereas old and new generations of Colonnatese mark plural on both the D and the N, new generations also show the possibility that plural morphology appears only on D (Cavirani :12, table 6). Thus, the data in (16b) suggest that Colonnatese patterns like Brazilian Portuguese (see example (2d), (10c)) in terms of encoding plural marking only on D…”

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“…Finally, also interesting regarding the issue of partial plural marking is the set of data in (20) and (21) (Manzini & Savoia , Pomino , Cavirani ). In (20) a contrast is observed depending on whether the adjective is prenominal or postnominal.…”

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“…Let us now consider how our proposal is able to explain the case of complex determiners formed by an article and a possessive. Consider the Brazilian Portuguese paradigm in (38), with the meaning ‘my daughters’, and the parallel data from Lunigiana dialects in (39) (Cavirani )…”

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“…In Section we present an alternative analysis according to which Number in Romance is conceived as an adjunct: adjunct to d in default cases, and adjunct to n/a in marked cases. Marked cases basically include number marking in various types of nominal compounds in Brazilian Portuguese, Catalan and Spanish, and plural marking on feminine nouns and prenominal adjectives in various Lunigiana dialects (Manzini & Savoia , Pomino , Cavirani ). For the default cases we will postulate at the first stage of the mapping from syntax to phonology a post‐syntactic operation of Concord that predicts that if a D is modified by a plural marker all the constituents this plural marker c‐commands within the DP may/must (depending on the language) show exponence of a plural marker.…”

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On the Syntax of Number in Romance

Cyrino

Espinal

2019

Studia Linguistica

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Inflectional languages, and Romance languages in particular, display morphological variation in plural marking within the nominal domain. While standard varieties show plural inflection on all the constituents within the DP, other varieties show this plural marking only on some of its constituents. We investigate a set of puzzling data and propose that Number in Romance is not a head, but an adjunct, an optional and bi‐valent morphosyntactic feature. We single out the hypothesis that, within the nominal domain, the pluralizer is in unmarked cases adjoined to D (i.e., a categorized d root), and in marked cases it is adjoined to a noun or an adjective (i.e., a categorized n/a root). We also discuss that instantiations of plural marking within the nominal domain should be conceived as the output of morphophonological concord, a post‐syntactic operation that is sensitive to c‐command.

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2019

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Number as an adjunct in Romance

Cyrino

Espinal

2020

Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory

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In this paper, we argue that Spanish (and other Romance languages such as Catalan), contrary to what has been believed up to now, patterns with languages such as Brazilian Portuguese and French. We present several different arguments to support our proposal that in the Romance languages we investigate plural marking is specified and interpreted on functional categories, namely on Determiners. We propose that in these languages plural marking is a syntactic adjunct to D (i.e., a categorized d root) by default, and to a categorized n root in marked cases. Manifestations of (plural) Number on other constituents within the nominal domain are to be considered solely as the output of morphophonological agreement or concord.

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Missing inflectional features and missing exponents in DP-internal agreement asymmetries

Bonet

2018

Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics

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This paper focuses on different types of agreement asymmetries within the DP in which postnominal modifiers exhibit full agreement while in prenominal modifiers agreement can fail in different ways. The main lines of the optimality-theoretic proposal in Bonet, Lloret & Mascaró (2015) are followed, but it is shown, through a comparison of two Northern Italian varieties, that their constraint set cannot account for varieties of Friulian, where the plural exponent fails to surface in plural contexts. It is argued that one of their constraints must be split into two separate ones, a strictly phonological constraint, Max(segment), on the one hand, and, on the other, a constraint on exponence, Max-M[F], proposed by Wolf (2008).

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The Distribution of Gender and Number in Lunigiana Nominal Expressions

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On the Syntax of Number in Romance

On the Syntax of Number in Romance

Number as an adjunct in Romance

Missing inflectional features and missing exponents in DP-internal agreement asymmetries

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