Reducing 'case' to denotational primitives

Nominal inflections in Albanian

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4567745
AutoresM Rita Manzini (0000-0002-5288-4210, University of Florence, autor de correspondencia), Leonardo M Savoia (0000-0002-5388-5629, University of Florence)
Año2011
Volumen11
Número1
Páginas76-120
Fecha de publicación2011-12-05
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaLinguistic Variation (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 2211-6834 • E-ISSN: 2211-6842
EditorialJohn Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1075/lv.11.1.03man
OpenAlexW1986977038
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas11

The nominal inflection system of Albanian includes specifications of case, definiteness, number and nominal class (gender). Our analysis recognizes three types of properties as theoretically relevant, namely N(ominal class), Q(quantification), D(efiniteness). Q inflections are responsible for the so-called oblique case - effectively a dyadic operator yielding a 'zonal inclusion' (possession) relation between the element to which it attaches and the internal argument of the verb (dative) or the head of a noun phrase (genitive). Q inflections are further responsible for plurality, while N inflections satisfy argument-of contexts (accusative)and D characterizes EPP contexts(nominative). Syncretisms (e.g. of dative and genitive, nominative and accusative) are not the result of morphological rules requiring Late Insertion of exponents (Distributed Morphology). Rather they are instances of ambiguity, resolved in the syntax (different embeddings) or at the interpretive interface. As such they are compatible with projection of the morphosyntax from lexical entries. Keywords: Case, nominative, accusative, oblique, syncretism, nominal class, plural, definiteness, possessor, locative

Animacy · Dative case · Definiteness · Genitive case · Inflection · Linguistics · Locative case · Nominative case · Noun · Possessive · Syntax · Verb · Computer Science · Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity · Mathematics · Philosophy