Keith Plaster and Maria Polinsky
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- September 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199577743
- eISBN:
- 9780191722844
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199577743.003.0005
- Subject:
- Linguistics, Semantics and Pragmatics, Syntax and Morphology
This chapter reanalyses noun classification in the Australian language Dyirbal. While earlier analyses have proposed intricate class assignment principles rooted in conceptual features, we argue that ...
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This chapter reanalyses noun classification in the Australian language Dyirbal. While earlier analyses have proposed intricate class assignment principles rooted in conceptual features, we argue that Dyirbal noun classification is sensitive to salient phonological cues and a small core of cross‐linguistically common semantic cues in keeping with other familiar noun classification systems.Less
This chapter reanalyses noun classification in the Australian language Dyirbal. While earlier analyses have proposed intricate class assignment principles rooted in conceptual features, we argue that Dyirbal noun classification is sensitive to salient phonological cues and a small core of cross‐linguistically common semantic cues in keeping with other familiar noun classification systems.
Danniel da Silva Carvalho
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- December 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780198828105
- eISBN:
- 9780191866777
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780198828105.003.0007
- Subject:
- Linguistics, Syntax and Morphology, Theoretical Linguistics
The aim of Chapter 7 is to provide a unified analysis of gender licensing in Brazilian Portuguese. It proposes a mechanism of feature relativization in the Preminger sense (2014) to address the ...
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The aim of Chapter 7 is to provide a unified analysis of gender licensing in Brazilian Portuguese. It proposes a mechanism of feature relativization in the Preminger sense (2014) to address the different syntactic patterns of gender agreement in the language. Preminger’s core idea is to deal with φ-agreement obligatoriness even in contexts in which it seems not to occur. The proposal points out that the different outcomes for gender are due to underspecification of the structure of the DP that contains this feature, and its combination with other features available in the inventory results in different interpretations in LF, which, in addition, may predict generalizations such as the option of default agreement as a predictable phenomenon in grammar.Less
The aim of Chapter 7 is to provide a unified analysis of gender licensing in Brazilian Portuguese. It proposes a mechanism of feature relativization in the Preminger sense (2014) to address the different syntactic patterns of gender agreement in the language. Preminger’s core idea is to deal with φ-agreement obligatoriness even in contexts in which it seems not to occur. The proposal points out that the different outcomes for gender are due to underspecification of the structure of the DP that contains this feature, and its combination with other features available in the inventory results in different interpretations in LF, which, in addition, may predict generalizations such as the option of default agreement as a predictable phenomenon in grammar.
Daniel Harbour
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- January 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780262019675
- eISBN:
- 9780262314572
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262019675.003.0008
- Subject:
- Linguistics, Syntax and Morphology
This chapter reviews the accumulating case for bivalence of person, number, and gender features, from semantics, morphology, and syntax. The evidence strongly suggests, the chapter states, that ...
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This chapter reviews the accumulating case for bivalence of person, number, and gender features, from semantics, morphology, and syntax. The evidence strongly suggests, the chapter states, that explicit reference to negation is necessary and that negation and absence are distinct.Less
This chapter reviews the accumulating case for bivalence of person, number, and gender features, from semantics, morphology, and syntax. The evidence strongly suggests, the chapter states, that explicit reference to negation is necessary and that negation and absence are distinct.
