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Structuring Variation in Romance Linguistics and Beyond: In honour of Leonardo M. SavoiaEdited by Mirko Grimaldi, Rosangela Lai, Ludovico Franco and Benedetta Baldi
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 252] 2018
► pp. 31–55
Chapter 2Gender, number and inflectional class in some Northern Italian dialects
The plural inflection ‑i and the interpretation of N morphology
Benedetta Baldi | University of Florence
Ludovico Franco | New University of Lisbon
In many Northern Italian varieties the plural inflection ‑i has a restricted distribution, targeting feminine class nouns, determiners and adjectives. The ‑i morpheme also occurs with clitic pronouns, both subjects and objects. The crucial point we address is the relation between the plural specialized morpheme ‑i and its distribution among noun classes. We account for the distribution of the inflection ‑i on the basis of a theoretical treatment of the internal structure of the noun, along the lines of Manzini and Savoia (2017a, b).
Keywords: nominal class, gender, number, clitic, Northern Italian dialects
Article outline
- 1.Introduction: The framework
- 2.The distribution of the plural ‑i in North Italian dialects
- 3.Plural and D field
- 3.1The inflection of clitics
- 4.Some proposals for the analysis
- 4.1The nature of -i
- 4.2The nominal inflection
- 5.Conclusions
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Published online: 19 December 2018
https://doi.org/10.1075/la.252.02bal
https://doi.org/10.1075/la.252.02bal
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