On the Syntax of Number in Romance
Cyrino, Sonia (Universidade Estadual de Campinas. Departamento de Linguística)
Espinal, M. Teresa (Maria Teresa) (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Filologia Catalana)

Date:	2020
Abstract:	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.
Grants:	Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca 2017SGR634 Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad FFI2017-82547-P
Note:	Altres ajuts: CNPq/304574/2017-1
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Language:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Published in:	Studia Linguistica, Vol. 74 Núm. 1 (january 2020) , p. 165-203, ISSN 1467-9582

DOI: 10.1111/stul.12123

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