The Form of Structure, the Structure of Form: Essays in honor of Jean Lowenstamm
Edited by Sabrina Bendjaballah, Noam Faust, Mohamed Lahrouchi and Nicola Lampitelli
[Language Faculty and Beyond, 12] 2014. vii, 377 pp.
Nicola Lampitelli
List of John Benjamins publications for which Nicola Lampitelli plays a role.
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Subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | Generative linguistics | Morphology | Phonology | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Articles
2014 On Plurals, noun phrase and num(ber)
in Moroccan Arabic and Djibouti Somali The Form of Structure, the Structure of Form: Essays in honor of Jean Lowenstamm, Bendjaballah, Sabrina, Noam Faust, Mohamed Lahrouchi and Nicola Lampitelli (eds.), pp. 303–314 | Article
In this paper, we focus on plural nouns in two Afroasiatic languages: Moroccan Arabic and Djibouti Somali. Within a syntactic approach to word formation, we show that not all plurals are located in the same syntactic position. In Moroccan Arabic, one plural results from the merger of a root with… read more
2010 Nounness, gender, class and syntactic structures in Italian nouns Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2008: Selected papers from 'Going Romance' Groningen 2008, Bok-Bennema, Reineke, Brigitte Kampers-Manhe and Bart Hollebrandse (eds.), pp. 195–214 | Article
This work proposes an analysis of Italian nouns. It explores the concept of the “final vowel” and claims that it is an analyzable object which is active in the formation of nouns in the language. The paper suggests that each “final vowel” is a complex morphophonological object (in the spirit of… read more