106 Is there a FocusP anda TopicP in the Noun Phrase structure? both from the crosslinguistic and... more 106 Is there a FocusP anda TopicP in the Noun Phrase structure? both from the crosslinguistic and from the language internal points of view. In other words, not all languages have a fine DP-structure and, furthermore, each single position is not found in all languages. This is ...
Studies in natural language and linguistic theory, 1995
GIULIANA GIUSTI A UNIFIED STRUCTURAL REPRESENTATION OF (ABSTRACT) CASE AND ARTICLE1 Evidence from... more GIULIANA GIUSTI A UNIFIED STRUCTURAL REPRESENTATION OF (ABSTRACT) CASE AND ARTICLE1 Evidence from Germanic ABSTRACT. In this paper, I will argue for the assumption of a nominal functional projec-tion FP that is the structural counterpart of (abstract) Case, ...
ABSTRACT In the generative tradition, the study of the noun phrase has received as much attention... more ABSTRACT In the generative tradition, the study of the noun phrase has received as much attention as the research on the structure of the sentence. The very concept of noun phrase has been expanded to contain an indefinite number of functional heads, with their specifiers and adjuncts. As a result, there is a vast structure, including ‘split projections’, that is parallel to clausal ones: an NP-shell (or nP) corresponding to a VP-shell (or vP)—an intermediate functional area formed with an indefinite number of projections related to adjectival modification, similar to adverbial modification in the clause—and a split DP representing different interpretive features parallel to a split CP. All this and much more is what Alexiadou, Haegeman, and Stavrou explore in Noun phrase in the generative perspective, which is dedicated to the memory of Tanya Reinhart. The book is indeed a challenging enterprise: the result is a fascinating voyage through one of the most intricate topics in the study of human language, manifested in an impressive number of languages representing various families, dialects, creoles, and historical stages. It is a comprehensive overview of the major achievements of generative grammar in the course of its fifty-year tradition, with particular focus on the last two decades. The structure of the book is a masterpiece of conceptual organization. Eight chapters are divided into four parts, each representing a major field of research. The authors are among the most influential European linguists in the study of nominal expressions. This is apparent from the fluent and easy-to-read style of the argumentation that is found in the book, despite the profoundly theoretical level of the discussion. The authors have done a remarkable job in approaching the subject through a wide historical picture. Nominal structure is as complex as clausal structure, and the labels NP, noun phrase, and DP are no longer suitable to refer to the whole nominal expression since they may also refer to portions of structure formed by split projections. A term parallel to ‘clause’ is necessary to formulate generalizations without taking a stand for a particular analysis. The fully spelled ‘noun phrase’ is too reminiscent of the most internal projection and so is not adequate to refer to the whole structure, while the label DP may refer to the highest constituent or to the highest layer, again leading to ambiguity. For these reasons, I follow Mila Dimitrova-Vulchanova’s (p.c.) suggestion and propose to use nominal expression (NE) to refer to the whole nominal constituent without touching on the very nature of the highest projection. Part 1, ‘Introduction’, presents the general framework, emphasizing the parallelisms between NEs and clauses. It shows that nominals have argument structure, that they are encapsulated into functional structure, and that A-, A-bar, and head-movements are present in NEs, mutatis mutandis, parallel to what is found in the clause. Competing hypotheses are introduced in an interlocutory fashion that prepare the discussions of the successive chapters. This part will be particularly useful to those linguists who are not completely familiar with the long-term tradition in the study of NEs or to those who are starting their research in generative grammar in general. Part 2, ‘The functional make up of the noun phrase’, deals with the upper area of the NE (usually called DP, but recently split into a number of projections), which is characterized as having two main, apparently unrelated properties: on the one hand, it makes the NE visible for thematic interpretation through the realization of (abstract) Case, and on the other hand, it hosts the interpretive features relevant to referential interpretation at LF. I particularly appreciate this dichotomic perspective because the studies on this part of the nominal structure usually focus on one of these two aspects and disregard the other. Ch. 1 of Part 2, ‘The emergence and the structure of DP: Articles and demonstratives’, discusses these two properties in turn. Articles are related to referential interpretation, but are also sensitive to the grammatical function of the NE and ultimately to the (abstract) Case assigned to it. Demonstratives have a different, much more complex syntax across languages. They can occupy more than one position in the NE and...
... E' attesa la rianalisi di un elemento da una delle tre categorie lessi-cali ad u... more ... E' attesa la rianalisi di un elemento da una delle tre categorie lessi-cali ad un'altra, con zone di indeterminatezza relativa, causata dalla attri-buzione di un dato elemento a più di ... Ad esempio, il caso partitivo realizzato marginalmente dalla preposizione di in italiano antico. ...
Sportiche (1988) proposes a theory of floating quantifiers for French that relies on two independ... more Sportiche (1988) proposes a theory of floating quantifiers for French that relies on two independently motivated assump-tions: (a) modifiers (including quantifiers) are generated adja-cent to the maximal projection they modify; and (b) the NP subject is generated adjoined to VP but ...
The examples in (1) show an apparently complete parallelism between the two languages. In fact, i... more The examples in (1) show an apparently complete parallelism between the two languages. In fact, in both, the indefinite article precedes the noun while the definite article follows it in the form of a suffix. The examples in (2), however, already reveal a considerable difference ...
Agreement and concord in nominal expressions1 Giuliana Giusti Università Ca&#... more Agreement and concord in nominal expressions1 Giuliana Giusti Università Ca'Foscari Venezia This paper claims that feature sharing should be analyzed as the result of at least two different processes, which are named here Agreement and Concord, and inquires how these two ...
24 On the Syntax of Quantity Expressions in Bosnian b. с mnoge m any-NOM FEM mnoga many-NOM NEUT ... more 24 On the Syntax of Quantity Expressions in Bosnian b. с mnoge m any-NOM FEM mnoga many-NOM NEUT hrabre djevojcice brave girls-NOM FEM hrabra djeca brave childrcn-NOM NEUT Quantity nouns and quantifiers are lexical heads that select a full noun phrase as ...
This theory can explain why only universal Qs can remain in place, while other modifiers or deter... more This theory can explain why only universal Qs can remain in place, while other modifiers or determiners cannot. Unfortunately, Sportiche does not deal with the question of the position of quantifiers that do not appear in this configuration. This is what I will investigate in what follows. In a ...
GIULIANA GIUSTI A UNIFIED STRUCTURAL REPRESENTATION OF (ABSTRACT) CASE AND ARTICLE1 Evidence from... more GIULIANA GIUSTI A UNIFIED STRUCTURAL REPRESENTATION OF (ABSTRACT) CASE AND ARTICLE1 Evidence from Germanic ABSTRACT. In this paper, I will argue for the assumption of a nominal functional projec-tion FP that is the structural counterpart of (abstract) Case, ...
106 Is there a FocusP anda TopicP in the Noun Phrase structure? both from the crosslinguistic and... more 106 Is there a FocusP anda TopicP in the Noun Phrase structure? both from the crosslinguistic and from the language internal points of view. In other words, not all languages have a fine DP-structure and, furthermore, each single position is not found in all languages. This is ...
Studies in natural language and linguistic theory, 1995
GIULIANA GIUSTI A UNIFIED STRUCTURAL REPRESENTATION OF (ABSTRACT) CASE AND ARTICLE1 Evidence from... more GIULIANA GIUSTI A UNIFIED STRUCTURAL REPRESENTATION OF (ABSTRACT) CASE AND ARTICLE1 Evidence from Germanic ABSTRACT. In this paper, I will argue for the assumption of a nominal functional projec-tion FP that is the structural counterpart of (abstract) Case, ...
ABSTRACT In the generative tradition, the study of the noun phrase has received as much attention... more ABSTRACT In the generative tradition, the study of the noun phrase has received as much attention as the research on the structure of the sentence. The very concept of noun phrase has been expanded to contain an indefinite number of functional heads, with their specifiers and adjuncts. As a result, there is a vast structure, including ‘split projections’, that is parallel to clausal ones: an NP-shell (or nP) corresponding to a VP-shell (or vP)—an intermediate functional area formed with an indefinite number of projections related to adjectival modification, similar to adverbial modification in the clause—and a split DP representing different interpretive features parallel to a split CP. All this and much more is what Alexiadou, Haegeman, and Stavrou explore in Noun phrase in the generative perspective, which is dedicated to the memory of Tanya Reinhart. The book is indeed a challenging enterprise: the result is a fascinating voyage through one of the most intricate topics in the study of human language, manifested in an impressive number of languages representing various families, dialects, creoles, and historical stages. It is a comprehensive overview of the major achievements of generative grammar in the course of its fifty-year tradition, with particular focus on the last two decades. The structure of the book is a masterpiece of conceptual organization. Eight chapters are divided into four parts, each representing a major field of research. The authors are among the most influential European linguists in the study of nominal expressions. This is apparent from the fluent and easy-to-read style of the argumentation that is found in the book, despite the profoundly theoretical level of the discussion. The authors have done a remarkable job in approaching the subject through a wide historical picture. Nominal structure is as complex as clausal structure, and the labels NP, noun phrase, and DP are no longer suitable to refer to the whole nominal expression since they may also refer to portions of structure formed by split projections. A term parallel to ‘clause’ is necessary to formulate generalizations without taking a stand for a particular analysis. The fully spelled ‘noun phrase’ is too reminiscent of the most internal projection and so is not adequate to refer to the whole structure, while the label DP may refer to the highest constituent or to the highest layer, again leading to ambiguity. For these reasons, I follow Mila Dimitrova-Vulchanova’s (p.c.) suggestion and propose to use nominal expression (NE) to refer to the whole nominal constituent without touching on the very nature of the highest projection. Part 1, ‘Introduction’, presents the general framework, emphasizing the parallelisms between NEs and clauses. It shows that nominals have argument structure, that they are encapsulated into functional structure, and that A-, A-bar, and head-movements are present in NEs, mutatis mutandis, parallel to what is found in the clause. Competing hypotheses are introduced in an interlocutory fashion that prepare the discussions of the successive chapters. This part will be particularly useful to those linguists who are not completely familiar with the long-term tradition in the study of NEs or to those who are starting their research in generative grammar in general. Part 2, ‘The functional make up of the noun phrase’, deals with the upper area of the NE (usually called DP, but recently split into a number of projections), which is characterized as having two main, apparently unrelated properties: on the one hand, it makes the NE visible for thematic interpretation through the realization of (abstract) Case, and on the other hand, it hosts the interpretive features relevant to referential interpretation at LF. I particularly appreciate this dichotomic perspective because the studies on this part of the nominal structure usually focus on one of these two aspects and disregard the other. Ch. 1 of Part 2, ‘The emergence and the structure of DP: Articles and demonstratives’, discusses these two properties in turn. Articles are related to referential interpretation, but are also sensitive to the grammatical function of the NE and ultimately to the (abstract) Case assigned to it. Demonstratives have a different, much more complex syntax across languages. They can occupy more than one position in the NE and...
... E' attesa la rianalisi di un elemento da una delle tre categorie lessi-cali ad u... more ... E' attesa la rianalisi di un elemento da una delle tre categorie lessi-cali ad un'altra, con zone di indeterminatezza relativa, causata dalla attri-buzione di un dato elemento a più di ... Ad esempio, il caso partitivo realizzato marginalmente dalla preposizione di in italiano antico. ...
Sportiche (1988) proposes a theory of floating quantifiers for French that relies on two independ... more Sportiche (1988) proposes a theory of floating quantifiers for French that relies on two independently motivated assump-tions: (a) modifiers (including quantifiers) are generated adja-cent to the maximal projection they modify; and (b) the NP subject is generated adjoined to VP but ...
The examples in (1) show an apparently complete parallelism between the two languages. In fact, i... more The examples in (1) show an apparently complete parallelism between the two languages. In fact, in both, the indefinite article precedes the noun while the definite article follows it in the form of a suffix. The examples in (2), however, already reveal a considerable difference ...
Agreement and concord in nominal expressions1 Giuliana Giusti Università Ca&#... more Agreement and concord in nominal expressions1 Giuliana Giusti Università Ca'Foscari Venezia This paper claims that feature sharing should be analyzed as the result of at least two different processes, which are named here Agreement and Concord, and inquires how these two ...
24 On the Syntax of Quantity Expressions in Bosnian b. с mnoge m any-NOM FEM mnoga many-NOM NEUT ... more 24 On the Syntax of Quantity Expressions in Bosnian b. с mnoge m any-NOM FEM mnoga many-NOM NEUT hrabre djevojcice brave girls-NOM FEM hrabra djeca brave childrcn-NOM NEUT Quantity nouns and quantifiers are lexical heads that select a full noun phrase as ...
This theory can explain why only universal Qs can remain in place, while other modifiers or deter... more This theory can explain why only universal Qs can remain in place, while other modifiers or determiners cannot. Unfortunately, Sportiche does not deal with the question of the position of quantifiers that do not appear in this configuration. This is what I will investigate in what follows. In a ...
GIULIANA GIUSTI A UNIFIED STRUCTURAL REPRESENTATION OF (ABSTRACT) CASE AND ARTICLE1 Evidence from... more GIULIANA GIUSTI A UNIFIED STRUCTURAL REPRESENTATION OF (ABSTRACT) CASE AND ARTICLE1 Evidence from Germanic ABSTRACT. In this paper, I will argue for the assumption of a nominal functional projec-tion FP that is the structural counterpart of (abstract) Case, ...
Vi comunico che sono aperte le iscrizioni alla nuova tornata del corso LINGUAGGIO, IDENTITà DI GE... more Vi comunico che sono aperte le iscrizioni alla nuova tornata del corso LINGUAGGIO, IDENTITà DI GENERE E LINGUA ITALIANA https://learn.eduopen.org/course/view.php?id=113
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Questo contributo si propone di presentare le dimensioni di variazione in ambito italoromanzo nel... more Questo contributo si propone di presentare le dimensioni di variazione in ambito italoromanzo nella realizzazione di un possessivo pronominale all’interno del sintagma nominale. La variazione si riscontra nella posizione prenominale o postnominale del possessivo e nella possibilità di realizzare il possessivo nelle forme di pronome (con morfologia di caso genitivo), come loro, cui e altrui o di aggettivo (con accordo per i tratti di genere e numero del nome che denota il possesso), come mia, tua, sua, nostra, vostra. La metodologia seguita sarà quella dei protocolli linguistici che si prefigge uno studio sistematico, basato sui progressi della linguistica teorica ma non legato ai tecnicismi tipici delle analisi formali che possono essere inaccessibili a chi non ha familiarità con un determinato quadro teorico. Il paragrafo 2 presenta le diverse proprietà che caratterizzano i possessivi in Italo-Romanzo. Il paragrafo 3 presenta tre diversi studi teorici sui possessivi. Il paragrafo 4 sviluppa il protocollo linguistico basato sui dati e sulle ipotesi trattate nei paragrafi 2-3. Il paragrafo 5 formula le prospettive di ricerca empirica, qualitativa e quantitativa, che ne derivano.
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un caro saluto e a presto
La metodologia seguita sarà quella dei protocolli linguistici che si prefigge uno studio sistematico, basato sui progressi della linguistica teorica ma non legato ai tecnicismi tipici delle analisi formali che possono essere inaccessibili a chi non ha familiarità con un determinato quadro teorico.
Il paragrafo 2 presenta le diverse proprietà che caratterizzano i possessivi in Italo-Romanzo. Il paragrafo 3 presenta tre diversi studi teorici sui possessivi. Il paragrafo 4 sviluppa il protocollo linguistico basato sui dati e sulle ipotesi trattate nei paragrafi 2-3. Il paragrafo 5 formula le prospettive di ricerca empirica, qualitativa e quantitativa, che ne derivano.