Number as an adjunct in Romance
Cyrino, Sonia (University of Campinas)
Espinal, M. Teresa (Maria Teresa) (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)

Imprint:	John Benjamins Publishing, 2020
Description:	25 pag.
Abstract:	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.
Grants:	Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad FFI2014-52015-P Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad FFI2017-82547-P Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca 2017-SGR-634
Note:	Altres ajuts: CNPq (Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico, Brazil) Grant n. 303742/2013-5
Rights:	Tots els drets reservats.
Language:	Anglès
Series:	Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory ; 16
Document:	Capítol de llibre ; Versió acceptada per publicar
Subject:	Pluralizer ; Adjunct ; Determiner ; Nominalizer ; Romance
ISBN:	9789027261182
Published in:	Selected papers from the 47th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Newark, Delaware, 2020, p. 77-92

DOI: 10.1075/rllt.16.06cyr

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