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Concord and agreement in the Romance nominal expression

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Publication: Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics, IX (1)
p-ISSN:2069-9239
Publisher:Universitatea din București
Place:București
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Abstract:Why are nominal expressions (NEs) and clauses so similar and yet so different? Can we derive all the differences between these two syntactic objects from a unique formal feature of either and the similarities from general requirements on syntactic structure? This paper reduces the similarities between NEs and clauses to three recursive relations triggering Merge: selection, modification, and projection. The differences are reduced to the propositional vs. referential properties of these syntactic objects. The truth value resulting from the propositional nature of clauses is the intersection of Person, Time and Polarity, while nominal reference is uniquely related to Person (which includes Number). Intersection occurs with the person feature of a possessor when present.
Key words:nominal expression, concord, agreement, selection, modification, projection
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1Giuliana GiustiOn concord and projectionBWPL, XIII (1)2011pdf
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13Guglielmo CinqueA Phrasal Movement Analysis of the Romanian DPAUI, XLIX-L, 1292003-2004

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