N morphology and its interpretation

We characterize Romance inflectional class morphology in Nouns as endowed with a semantic content, providing evidence about its active involvement at the syntaxsemantic interface. We argue that the so-called neuter of Central Italian dialects involves coding of the mass/count distinction, which can...

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Autores: Franco, Ludovico|||0000-0002-8261-4748, Manzini, M. Rita|||0000-0002-5288-4210, Savoia, Leonardo M.
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2015
País:España
Institución:Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB
Idioma:inglés
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Palabra clave:Nominal class
Gender
Agreement
Neuter
Mass/count distinction
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spelling N morphology and its interpretationthe neuter in Central Italian varieties and its implicationsFranco, Ludovico|||0000-0002-8261-4748Manzini, M. Rita|||0000-0002-5288-4210Savoia, Leonardo M.Nominal classGenderAgreementNeuterMass/count distinctionWe characterize Romance inflectional class morphology in Nouns as endowed with a semantic content, providing evidence about its active involvement at the syntaxsemantic interface. We argue that the so-called neuter of Central Italian dialects involves coding of the mass/count distinction, which can in turn be interpreted as the reflex of a more primitive property, opposes non-individual content to instances of individual denotation. Indeed the -o 'neuter' inflection of Central Italian varieties is compatible not only with mass nouns but also with eventive contents and with the invariable inflections found with perfect participles of unergative/transitive verbs. We show that mass vs. count semantic content is available in other Indo-European languages and in genetically unrelated languages through nominal class morphology supporting the idea that nominal class is a classifier. 22015-01-0120152015-01-01Articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501VoRhttp://purl.org/coar/version/c_970fb48d4fbd8a85info:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttps://ddd.uab.cat/record/145066https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.5565/rev/isogloss.14reponame:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UABinstname:Universitat Autònoma de BarcelonaInglésengopen accesshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2Aquest document està subjecte a una llicència d'ús Creative Commons. Es permet la reproducció total o parcial, la distribució, la comunicació pública de l'obra i la creació d'obres derivades, fins i tot amb finalitats comercials, sempre i quan es reconegui l'autoria de l'obra original.https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:ddd.uab.cat:1450662026-06-06T12:50:31Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv N morphology and its interpretation
the neuter in Central Italian varieties and its implications
title N morphology and its interpretation
spellingShingle N morphology and its interpretation
Franco, Ludovico|||0000-0002-8261-4748
Nominal class
Gender
Agreement
Neuter
Mass/count distinction
title_short N morphology and its interpretation
title_full N morphology and its interpretation
title_fullStr N morphology and its interpretation
title_full_unstemmed N morphology and its interpretation
title_sort N morphology and its interpretation
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Franco, Ludovico|||0000-0002-8261-4748
Manzini, M. Rita|||0000-0002-5288-4210
Savoia, Leonardo M.
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Manzini, M. Rita|||0000-0002-5288-4210
Savoia, Leonardo M.
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Savoia, Leonardo M.
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Nominal class
Gender
Agreement
Neuter
Mass/count distinction
topic Nominal class
Gender
Agreement
Neuter
Mass/count distinction
description We characterize Romance inflectional class morphology in Nouns as endowed with a semantic content, providing evidence about its active involvement at the syntaxsemantic interface. We argue that the so-called neuter of Central Italian dialects involves coding of the mass/count distinction, which can in turn be interpreted as the reflex of a more primitive property, opposes non-individual content to instances of individual denotation. Indeed the -o 'neuter' inflection of Central Italian varieties is compatible not only with mass nouns but also with eventive contents and with the invariable inflections found with perfect participles of unergative/transitive verbs. We show that mass vs. count semantic content is available in other Indo-European languages and in genetically unrelated languages through nominal class morphology supporting the idea that nominal class is a classifier.
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