The morphosyntactic structure of number in Italian and Albanian. High and low plurals
I adopt the view that there are two number positions, including a lower Class position also hosting gender and a higher Num position. Italian -a plurals and Albanian neuters are associated with a cluster of properties often thought to characterize low plurals: application to a restricted set of lexi...
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| description | I adopt the view that there are two number positions, including a lower Class position also hosting gender and a higher Num position. Italian -a plurals and Albanian neuters are associated with a cluster of properties often thought to characterize low plurals: application to a restricted set of lexical bases, meaning idiosyncrasies, association with (feminine) gender and agreement in the singular with the finite verb. Current analyses associate count Ns (both singular and plural) with a specialized node while treating mass Ns as default. I argue that mass Ns are associated with a specialized feature [aggr] (Albanian neuter) – and that a divisibility feature [part] for plural can attach to both count and mass bases (Italian -a). The properties of low number depend on the properties of the Class position, including the fact that it is low enough to select gender and also to combine with a different Num, yielding mixed agreement. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-568aa1c77149492086f8c005d7c23b3b2022-12-21T22:59:27ZcatUniversitat Autònoma de BarcelonaCatalan Journal of Linguistics1695-68852014-97192020-12-011910.5565/rev/catjl.319210The morphosyntactic structure of number in Italian and Albanian. High and low pluralsM. Rita Manzini0Università di FirenzeI adopt the view that there are two number positions, including a lower Class position also hosting gender and a higher Num position. Italian -a plurals and Albanian neuters are associated with a cluster of properties often thought to characterize low plurals: application to a restricted set of lexical bases, meaning idiosyncrasies, association with (feminine) gender and agreement in the singular with the finite verb. Current analyses associate count Ns (both singular and plural) with a specialized node while treating mass Ns as default. I argue that mass Ns are associated with a specialized feature [aggr] (Albanian neuter) – and that a divisibility feature [part] for plural can attach to both count and mass bases (Italian -a). The properties of low number depend on the properties of the Class position, including the fact that it is low enough to select gender and also to combine with a different Num, yielding mixed agreement.https://revistes.uab.cat/catJL/article/view/319numberpluralmassgenderneuteragreement |
| spellingShingle | M. Rita Manzini The morphosyntactic structure of number in Italian and Albanian. High and low plurals Catalan Journal of Linguistics number plural mass gender neuter agreement |
| title | The morphosyntactic structure of number in Italian and Albanian. High and low plurals |
| title_full | The morphosyntactic structure of number in Italian and Albanian. High and low plurals |
| title_fullStr | The morphosyntactic structure of number in Italian and Albanian. High and low plurals |
| title_full_unstemmed | The morphosyntactic structure of number in Italian and Albanian. High and low plurals |
| title_short | The morphosyntactic structure of number in Italian and Albanian. High and low plurals |
| title_sort | morphosyntactic structure of number in italian and albanian high and low plurals |
| topic | number plural mass gender neuter agreement |
| url | https://revistes.uab.cat/catJL/article/view/319 |
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