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The Agreement of Structural Obliques Parameter.: Pseudopartitives, DOM and Partitive Articles in Romance.
- Source :
- Studies in Polish Linguistics; 2019 Special issue, p35-51, 17p
- Publication Year :
- 2019
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Abstract
- The core proposal of this contribution is that in [P DP] or [K DP] structures, where K, P are oblique prepositions or cases, either P/K or DP can label the resulting constituent. If PP/KP is the resulting label, the constituent does not provide a goal for Agree. If DP is the resulting label, the constituent behaves like any other DP, providing a goal for Agree. This is what we call the agreement parameter for structural obliques. Inherent obliques, i.e. those selected by a predicate, obligatorily project as PP/KP. In section 1 we use this hypothesis to explain variation in the agreement pattern of pseudopartitives, in section 2 we institue a parallelism with Differential Object Marking (DOM). In section 3, we illustrate a consequence of the same labelling algorithm independent of agreement, arguing that so-called Romance partitive articles include the partitive preposition di 'of ', but at the same time project as DPs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 17328160
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Studies in Polish Linguistics
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 142034017
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.4467/23005920SPL.19.005.10985