The nominal inflection system of Albanian includes specifications of case, definiteness, number adnominal class (gender). Our analysis recognizes three types of properties as theoretically relevant, namely N(ominal class), Q(quantification), D(efiniteness). Q inflections are responsible for the so called oblique case – effectively a dyadic operator yielding a ‘zonal inclusion’ (possession) relation between the element to which it attaches and the internal argument of the verb (dative) or the head of a noun phrase (genitive). Q inflections are further responsible for plurality, while N inflections satisfy argument-of contexts (accusative) and D characterizes EPP contexts (nominative). Syncretisms (e.g. of dative and genitive, nominative and accusative) are not the result of morphological rules requiring Late Insertion of exponents (Distributed Morphology). Rather they are instances of ambiguity, resolved in the syntax or at the interpretive interface. As such they are compatible with projection of the morphosyntax from lexical entries.

Caso e proprietà denotazionali: la flessione nominale nella varietà ghega di Shkodër / Maria Rita, Manzini; Savoia, Leonardo M.. - STAMPA. - (2016), pp. 79-93.

Caso e proprietà denotazionali: la flessione nominale nella varietà ghega di Shkodër

MANZINI, MARIA RITA;SAVOIA, LEONARDO MARIA
2016

Abstract

The nominal inflection system of Albanian includes specifications of case, definiteness, number adnominal class (gender). Our analysis recognizes three types of properties as theoretically relevant, namely N(ominal class), Q(quantification), D(efiniteness). Q inflections are responsible for the so called oblique case – effectively a dyadic operator yielding a ‘zonal inclusion’ (possession) relation between the element to which it attaches and the internal argument of the verb (dative) or the head of a noun phrase (genitive). Q inflections are further responsible for plurality, while N inflections satisfy argument-of contexts (accusative) and D characterizes EPP contexts (nominative). Syncretisms (e.g. of dative and genitive, nominative and accusative) are not the result of morphological rules requiring Late Insertion of exponents (Distributed Morphology). Rather they are instances of ambiguity, resolved in the syntax or at the interpretive interface. As such they are compatible with projection of the morphosyntax from lexical entries.
2016
978-88-6274-735-6
La lingua e i parlanti. Studi e ricerche di linguistica
79
93
Maria Rita, Manzini; Savoia, Leonardo M.
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