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N Class and its Interpretation: The Neuter in Central Italian Varieties and its Implications

In this work we will characterize Romance N class morphology as endowed with a semantic content, providing evidence about the active involvement of N class at the syntaxsemantic interface. We will argue that the so-called neuter of Central Italian dialects involves coding of the mass/count distinction by N class morphology. The mass vs. count contrast can be interpreted as the reflex of a more primitive property, which opposes non-individual content to instances of individual denotation, since the -o ‘neuter’ inflection of Central Italian varieties is compatible not only with mass nouns but also with eventive contents and with the invariable inflections found with perfect participles of unergative/transitive verbs. We will show that Mass vs. count semantic content associated to and encoded through N class is available in other Indo-European languages and in genetically unrelated languages and we will support the idea that N class can function as a classifier

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona; Universitat de Girona

Autor: Franco, Ludovico
Manzini, M. Rita
Savoia, Leonardo M.
Data: 5 juny 2018
Resum: In this work we will characterize Romance N class morphology as endowed with a semantic content, providing evidence about the active involvement of N class at the syntaxsemantic interface. We will argue that the so-called neuter of Central Italian dialects involves coding of the mass/count distinction by N class morphology. The mass vs. count contrast can be interpreted as the reflex of a more primitive property, which opposes non-individual content to instances of individual denotation, since the -o ‘neuter’ inflection of Central Italian varieties is compatible not only with mass nouns but also with eventive contents and with the invariable inflections found with perfect participles of unergative/transitive verbs. We will show that Mass vs. count semantic content associated to and encoded through N class is available in other Indo-European languages and in genetically unrelated languages and we will support the idea that N class can function as a classifier
Accés al document: http://hdl.handle.net/2072/321055
Llenguatge: eng
Editor: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona; Universitat de Girona
Drets: Attribution 3.0 Spain
URI Drets: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
Matèria: Italià (Llengua) -- Article
Italian language -- Article
Llengües romàniques -- Article
Romance languages -- Article
Gramàtica comparada i general -- Article
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Article
Títol: N Class and its Interpretation: The Neuter in Central Italian Varieties and its Implications
Tipus: info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Repositori: Recercat

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