This work xamines variation across Romance dialects, ssuggesting the necessity of reform of the morphological set {person, number, gender, case}. Comparison with the different data set offered by Albanian dialects confirms this conclusion. The proposed reform is that syntax and morphology should run on the same categories, namely syntactic categories like N, Q, D etc to the exclusion of the traditional morphological feature set. Thus linguistic structures are articulated by the merger of lexical items that project such categories both at the phrase (syntactic) level and at the word (morphological) level.

Uninterpretable features are incompatible in morphology with other minimalist postulates / M. R. Manzini; L. Savoia. - In: QUADERNI DEL DIPARTIMENTO DI LINGUISTICA. UNIVERSITA' DEGLI STUDI DI FIRENZE. - ISSN 1122-0619. - STAMPA. - 14:(2004), pp. 13-33.

Uninterpretable features are incompatible in morphology with other minimalist postulates

MANZINI, MARIA RITA;SAVOIA, LEONARDO MARIA
2004

Abstract

This work xamines variation across Romance dialects, ssuggesting the necessity of reform of the morphological set {person, number, gender, case}. Comparison with the different data set offered by Albanian dialects confirms this conclusion. The proposed reform is that syntax and morphology should run on the same categories, namely syntactic categories like N, Q, D etc to the exclusion of the traditional morphological feature set. Thus linguistic structures are articulated by the merger of lexical items that project such categories both at the phrase (syntactic) level and at the word (morphological) level.
2004
14
13
33
M. R. Manzini; L. Savoia
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