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Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2008: Selected papers from 'Going Romance' Groningen 2008Edited by Reineke Bok-Bennema, Brigitte Kampers-Manhe and Bart Hollebrandse
[Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2] 2010
► pp. 195–214
Edited by Reineke Bok-Bennema, Brigitte Kampers-Manhe and Bart Hollebrandse
[Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2] 2010
► pp. 195–214
Nounness, gender, class and syntactic structures in Italian nouns
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 Kaye, Lowenstamm & Vergnaud 1985, 1990) and that only a syntactic approach to noun formation (Halle & Marantz 1993) can fully account for the distribution of such morphophonological complexes. On a more general level, the analysis depicted explains the behavior and the formation of non-derived simple nouns in Italian.
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2014. The roots of nominality, the nominality of roots. In The Syntax of Roots and the Roots of Syntax, ► pp. 33 ff.
Alexiadou, Artemis
2014. Roots in transitivity alternations. In The Syntax of Roots and the Roots of Syntax, ► pp. 57 ff.
Artemis Alexiadou, Hagit Borer & Florian Schäfer
2014. The Syntax of Roots and the Roots of Syntax,
Artemis Alexiadou, Hagit Borer & Florian Schäfer
2014. Introduction. In The Syntax of Roots and the Roots of Syntax, ► pp. 1 ff.
Anagnostopoulou, Elena & Yota Samioti
2014. Domains within words and their meanings. In The Syntax of Roots and the Roots of Syntax, ► pp. 81 ff.
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2023. The Representation of Gender and Inflectional Class in Italian: A Reply to Kučerová 2018. Linguistic Inquiry 55:1 ► pp. 153 ff.
Borer, Hagit
2014. The category of roots. In The Syntax of Roots and the Roots of Syntax, ► pp. 112 ff.
Cavirani, Edoardo
2022. Silent lateral actors: the role of unpronounced nuclei in morpho-phonological analyses. The Linguistic Review 39:4 ► pp. 615 ff.
De Belder, Marijke, Noam Faust & Nicola Lampitelli
2014. On a low and a high diminutive. In The Syntax of Roots and the Roots of Syntax, ► pp. 149 ff.
Doron, Edit
2014. The interaction of adjectival passive and Voice. In The Syntax of Roots and the Roots of Syntax, ► pp. 164 ff.
Faust, Noam, Nicola Lampitelli & Shanti Ulfsbjorninn
2018. Articles of Italian unite! Italian definite articles without allomorphy. Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique 63:3 ► pp. 359 ff.
Gallego, Ángel J.
2014. Roots and phases. In The Syntax of Roots and the Roots of Syntax, ► pp. 192 ff.
Hovav, Malka Rappaport
2014. Building scalar changes. In The Syntax of Roots and the Roots of Syntax, ► pp. 259 ff.
Kučerová, Ivona
2018. ɸ-Features at the Syntax-Semantics Interface: Evidence from Nominal Inflection. Linguistic Inquiry 49:4 ► pp. 813 ff.
Lahrouchi, Mohamed & Rachid Ridouane
2016. On diminutives and plurals in Moroccan Arabic. Morphology 26:3-4 ► pp. 453 ff.
Levinson, Lisa
2014. The ontology of roots and verbs. In The Syntax of Roots and the Roots of Syntax, ► pp. 208 ff.
Lowenstamm, Jean
2014. Derivational affixes as roots. In The Syntax of Roots and the Roots of Syntax, ► pp. 230 ff.
Roßdeutscher, Antje
2014. When roots license and when they respect semantico‐syntactic structure in verbs. In The Syntax of Roots and the Roots of Syntax, ► pp. 282 ff.
Vender, Maria, Federica Mantione, Silvia Savazzi, Denis Delfitto & Chiara Melloni
2017. Inflectional morphology and dyslexia: Italian children’s performance in a nonword pluralization task. Annals of Dyslexia 67:3 ► pp. 401 ff.
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2014. General preface. In The Syntax of Roots and the Roots of Syntax, ► pp. vii ff.
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2014. Notes on contributors. In The Syntax of Roots and the Roots of Syntax, ► pp. viii ff.
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2014. Copyright Page. In The Syntax of Roots and the Roots of Syntax, ► pp. iv ff.
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2014. List of abbreviations. In The Syntax of Roots and the Roots of Syntax, ► pp. xi ff.
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