The morphosyntactic structure of number in Italian and Albanian. High and low plurals

I adopt the view that there are two number positions, including a lower Class position also hosting gender and a higher Num position. Italian -a plurals and Albanian neuters are associated with a cluster of properties often thought to characterize low plurals: application to a restricted set of lexi...

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Autor principal:	M. Rita Manzini
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Lenguaje:	CA EN
Publicado:	Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona 2020
Materias:	number plural mass gender neuter agreement Philology. Linguistics P1-1091
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:568aa1c77149492086f8c005d7c23b3b2021-11-27T10:46:16ZThe morphosyntactic structure of number in Italian and Albanian. High and low plurals10.5565/rev/catjl.3191695-68852014-9719https://doaj.org/article/568aa1c77149492086f8c005d7c23b3b2020-12-01T00:00:00Zhttps://revistes.uab.cat/catJL/article/view/319https://doaj.org/toc/1695-6885https://doaj.org/toc/2014-9719I adopt the view that there are two number positions, including a lower Class position also hosting gender and a higher Num position. Italian -a plurals and Albanian neuters are associated with a cluster of properties often thought to characterize low plurals: application to a restricted set of lexical bases, meaning idiosyncrasies, association with (feminine) gender and agreement in the singular with the finite verb. Current analyses associate count Ns (both singular and plural) with a specialized node while treating mass Ns as default. I argue that mass Ns are associated with a specialized feature [aggr] (Albanian neuter) – and that a divisibility feature [part] for plural can attach to both count and mass bases (Italian -a). The properties of low number depend on the properties of the Class position, including the fact that it is low enough to select gender and also to combine with a different Num, yielding mixed agreement.M. Rita ManziniUniversitat Autònoma de BarcelonaarticlenumberpluralmassgenderneuteragreementPhilology. LinguisticsP1-1091CAENCatalan Journal of Linguistics, Vol 19 (2020)
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spellingShingle	number plural mass gender neuter agreement Philology. Linguistics P1-1091 M. Rita Manzini The morphosyntactic structure of number in Italian and Albanian. High and low plurals
description	I adopt the view that there are two number positions, including a lower Class position also hosting gender and a higher Num position. Italian -a plurals and Albanian neuters are associated with a cluster of properties often thought to characterize low plurals: application to a restricted set of lexical bases, meaning idiosyncrasies, association with (feminine) gender and agreement in the singular with the finite verb. Current analyses associate count Ns (both singular and plural) with a specialized node while treating mass Ns as default. I argue that mass Ns are associated with a specialized feature [aggr] (Albanian neuter) – and that a divisibility feature [part] for plural can attach to both count and mass bases (Italian -a). The properties of low number depend on the properties of the Class position, including the fact that it is low enough to select gender and also to combine with a different Num, yielding mixed agreement.
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title	The morphosyntactic structure of number in Italian and Albanian. High and low plurals
title_short	The morphosyntactic structure of number in Italian and Albanian. High and low plurals
title_full	The morphosyntactic structure of number in Italian and Albanian. High and low plurals
title_fullStr	The morphosyntactic structure of number in Italian and Albanian. High and low plurals
title_full_unstemmed	The morphosyntactic structure of number in Italian and Albanian. High and low plurals
title_sort	morphosyntactic structure of number in italian and albanian. high and low plurals
publisher	Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
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The morphosyntactic structure of number in Italian and Albanian. High and low plurals

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