The Morphosyntax of Albanian and Aromanian Varieties

Manzini, M. Rita; Savoia, Leonardo M.

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“…This line of reasoning is in line with those analyses that assign an expletive (functional) character to the adjectival article in polydefinite DP s (cf. Androutsopoulou 1995), while attributing definiteness to either a postulated DefinitenessPhrase, DefP (Lekakou & Szendroi 2012), or a dedicated Iota Phrase (Kyriakaki 2011); for a more general crosslinguistic perspective concerning the role and function of (different types of) similar morphemes, which appear with noun modifiers in various languages and share several properties with the adjectival article in Greek (i.e., Linkers), see Franco, Manzini & Savoia (2015) and Manzini & Savoia (2018). Our analysis of the structure proposed for Greek polydefiniteness is developed in Section 4.…”

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Adjective-Noun combinations in Romance and Greek of Southern Italy

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2019

J. Greek Linguist.

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This paper investigates aspects of adjectival modification in Romance and Greek of Southern Italy. In Italiot Greek, prenominal adjectives obey restrictions that do not exist in Standard Modern Greek, where all types of adjectives are allowed in prenominal position. As far as postnominal adjectives are concerned, in the textual tradition of Calabria Greek there is evidence of postnominal adjectives systematically articulated in definite nominal structures (henceforth DP s), in a structure similar to the so-called polydefinite construction that is typical of Standard Modern Greek (and of Greek in general since ancient times). Some residual evidence of such a construction is also found in Salento. Yet, in the varieties currently spoken in the two areas, postnominal adjectives are never articulated. The paper explores these patterns, with particular attention to the mechanisms potentially responsible for the loss of polydefiniteness.

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Adjective-Noun combinations in Romance and Greek of Southern Italy

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“…Indeed, they are associated with a restricted number of lexical bases and with interpretive idiosyncrasies, and they select their own feminine gender, superseding 8. Manzini & Savoia (2018a) explain in this way the fact that plural (direct case) is often syncretic with oblique (singular) in Indo-European languages.…”

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“…I take it that the fact that the property of divisibility is shared by count plurals and mass terms is part of the answer. Manzini & Savoia (2018a) call the relevant property [⊆]. In their conception, [⊆] is a partition (part/ whole, inclusion, etc.)…”

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“…However the uninterpretable/unvalued status of the φ-features of D as a probe are not without problems (Danon 2010). Manzini & Savoia (2018a) There are prima facie reasons to believe that the same layering is present in Romance. In languages like Spanish, the dedicated -s plural morphology externalizing Num is added to the inflectional class vowel, as in (11b).…”

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“…The plural agreement of determiners and modifiers tracks [part], the singular agreement of the finite verb tracks [aggr]. In essence, I defend many of the proposals on both Italian and Albanian advanced by Manzini & Savoia (2018a, 2018b, trying to better highlight their relation to different proposals present in the literature.…”

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Romance clitics are currently accounted for as DP arguments moved to functional head positions or as functional heads (AccVoice, etc.) licensing pro-DPs in argument position. I take the view that clitics are first merged as heads, projecting independently motivated categories on the functional spine of the sentence (φP, ApplP). I argue that they can satisfy theta relations without need for a pro associate. From an empirical point of view, a pure head syntax for clitics is favoured in explaining the asymmetries between clitics and phrases, found in several syntactically relevant domains (order, agreement, case). I show how the hypothesis that clitics are functional heads derives the internal order of the clitic string, which does not necessarily match (or mirror) that of phrasal constituents. I also consider agreement asymmetries (perfect participle agreement) and case asymmetries (in relation to Differential Object Marking).

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The Morphosyntax of Albanian and Aromanian Varieties

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Adjective-Noun combinations in Romance and Greek of Southern Italy

Adjective-Noun combinations in Romance and Greek of Southern Italy

The morphosyntactic structure of number in Italian and Albanian. High and low plurals

Romance pronominal clitics as pure heads

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