| Title: | Polydefinite DPs in Old Romanian |
| Author: | Daniela Isac |
| Publication: | Formal Approaches to DPs in Old Romanian, Section The Internal Structure of the DP, p. 62 |
| ISBN: | 978-90-04-28771-6 |
| Editors: | Virginia Hill |
| Publisher: | Brill |
| Place: | Leiden, Boston |
| Year: | 2015 |
| Abstract: | This paper focuses on Old Romanian DPs in which the definite article surfaces more than once: on the noun and on another item, typically an adjective. While the literature analyzes these DPs as involving multiple agree with the definiteness feature on the D head, I propose that Old Romanian made use of a feature that is no longer syntactically active in Modern Romanian, namely referentiality. Thus the analysis I propose computes over two morphosyntactic features: definiteness and referentiality. Both of these are unvalued features of D and the proposal is that the definite article is spelled out disjointly both on items that probe D to check/value the [def] feature, and on items that check/value the [Ref] feature on D. One advantage of this approach over a multiple agree approach is that long distance agree, which was posited for Old Romanian in previous work on definite DPs can be dispensed with. |
| Language: | English |
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