Limba română: diacronie și sincronie în studiul limbii române, I, p. 87
Editors:
Rodica Zafiu, Adina Dragomirescu, Alexandru Nicolae
Publisher:
Editura Universității din București
Place:
București
Year:
2014
Abstract:
Romanian plain free relatives (henceforth FRs), like their English counterparts have been analyzed as complex nominals being assigned a D°^CP structure à la Kayne (1994) (Caponigro 2002a, 2003 for English; David 2013 for Romanian). We show that Romanian plain FRs are characterized by semantic definiteness (i.e., maximality), patterning like plural definite descriptions, their D° being endowed with a [+Max] feature (cf. Caponigro 2002a for English) and that the definite DP analysis can be maintained, even if FRs exhibit Quantificational Variability Effects (QVEs) and get universal readings in non episodic contexts.
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