| Title: | The Parameter of Definiteness in Romanian: Diachronic and Synchronic Evidence |
| Author: | Alexandru Nicolae |
| Publication: | Formal Approaches to DPs in Old Romanian, Section The Internal Structure of the DP, p. 17 |
| ISBN: | 978-90-04-28771-6 |
| Editors: | Virginia Hill |
| Publisher: | Brill |
| Place: | Leiden, Boston |
| Year: | 2015 |
| Abstract: | This paper brings diachronic and synchronic evidence for the claim that the Parameter of Definiteness coined by Danon (2010) is active in the syntax of the Romanian nominal phrase. We analyze the status of the definiteness feature in the typology of grammatical features put forth by Kibort (2010), and show that definiteness is realized as a grammatical suffix and behaves like a morphosyntactic feature in Romanian as it is involved in syntactic agreement and, marginally, in licensing. The morphosyntactic nature of definiteness opens the way towards a proper parameterization. We then thoroughly discuss the patterns of definiteness realization which indicate that the definite article starts low, as a suffix on the noun (as chiefly shown by the “low definite article” of Old Romanian identified by Cornilescu and Nicolae 2011a), and its (sometimes multiple) realization is driven by Agree. |
| Language: | English |
Citations to this publication: 3
| 2 | Adam Ledgeway | The Romanian definite article in a comparative Romance perspective | Dindelegan, 229 | 2017 | |
| 85 | Gabriela Pană Dindelegan (ed.) | The Syntax of Old Romanian | Oxford University Press | 2016 | |
| 16 | Alexandru Nicolae | Ordinea constituenţilor în limba română: o perspectivă diacronică Structura propoziţiei şi deplasarea verbului | Editura Universității din București | 2015 |
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