Pronominal Possessors and Feature Uniqueness

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2940468
AutoresCarmen Dobrovie-Sorin, Carmen Dobrovie‐sorin (0000-0002-8658-9746, Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle), Ion Giurgea (0009-0001-6932-4017)
Año2011
Volumen87
Número1
Páginas126-157
Fecha de publicación2011-03-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaLanguage (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0097-8507 • E-ISSN: 1535-0665
EditorialProject MUSE (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1353/lan.2011.0020
OpenAlexW2077345690
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas4
Referencias citadas47

This article explains the correlation between agreeing and nonagreeing forms of pronominal possessors and their person features in Romanian and other Indo-European languages: first- and second-person pronouns agree, whereas third-person pronouns are nonagreeing forms marked with genitive case. We show that the distribution of agreeing and nonagreeing pronominal forms follows from a constraint of feature uniqueness , which prevents a pronominal root from merging with more than one set of inflectional features (distinguished from lexical features, which belong to the root). The analysis is shown to extend to the agreeing third-person possessors found in most Romance and Germanic languages and to the Slavic agreeing nominal possessors

Feature (linguistics) · Genitive case · Grammatical Gender · Linguistics · Noun · Personal pronoun · Romance languages · Romanian · Slavic languages · Uniqueness · Computer Science · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Linguistics and language evolution · Mathematics · Philosophy · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation