dc.contributor.author
Cyrino, Sonia
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Espinal, M. Teresa
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https://ddd.uab.cat/record/222917
dc.identifier
urn:10.1111/stul.12123
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urn:oai:ddd.uab.cat:222917
dc.identifier
urn:scopus_id:85069689115
dc.identifier
urn:articleid:14679582v74n1p165
dc.identifier
urn:oai:egreta.uab.cat:publications/5b78d6ba-36fc-47de-9b46-6efd54ac4ac5
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urn:wos_id:000476004100001
dc.description.abstract
Altres ajuts: CNPq/304574/2017-1
dc.description.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.
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application/pdf
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Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca 2017/SGR-634
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Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad FFI2017-82547-P
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Studia Linguistica ; Vol. 74 Núm. 1 (january 2020), p. 165-203
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https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.title
On the Syntax of Number in Romance
