Search Results - "M. Rita Manzini"

Morphology as syntax, features as categories, functional cascades by Manzini, M. Rita

“…This article provides a commentary on a spoken presentation (Michal Starke, NELS talk, November 2020), the main thesis of which, as explicitly stated in the…”
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The morphosyntactic structure of number in Italian and Albanian. High and low plurals by Manzini, M. Rita

“…I adopt the view that there are two number positions, including a lower Class position also hosting gender and a higher Num position. Italian -a plurals and…”
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Instrumental prepositions and case: Contexts of occurrence and alternations with datives by Franco, Ludovico, Manzini, M. Rita

“…We will argue that instrumentals are the mirror image of dative/genitive obliques. We propose that both sets of adpositions/cases are elementary predicates,…”
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Mesoclisis in the imperative: Phonology, morphology or syntax? by Manzini, M. Rita, Savoia, Leonardo M.

“…Mesoclisis in the imperative and parasitic plurals in Spanish are currently accounted for either at Morphological Structure ( Halle and Marantz, 1994) or at…”
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Goal and DOM datives by Manzini, M. Rita, Franco, Ludovico

“…In a range of Indo-European languages (Romance, Albanian, Iranian, Indo-Aryan), the same oblique case ('dative') is associated with indirect objects and with…”
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Chomsky’s (2020) Links and linker phenomena by M. Rita Manzini

“…In Section 1, I present a recent formalisation of modification and conjunction structures by Chomsky (2020), in terms of sequences of Pair-Merge units, each…”
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Grammatical categories: Strong and weak pronouns in Romance by Manzini, M. Rita

“…•Romance non-clitic pronouns are not categorized into strong and weak.•Strong and weak categorizations require a realizational model of the lexicon.•The…”
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N Class and its Interpretation: The Neuter in Central Italian Varieties and its Implications by Franco, Ludovico, Manzini, M. Rita, Savoia, Leonardo M.

“…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…”
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The Agreement of Structural Obliques Parameter. Pseudopartitives, DOM and partitive articles in Romance by Manzini, M. Rita

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From Phonological Rules to the Person Case Constraint. Monovalent vs. Bivalent Features in Grammar by Laura Bafile, M. Rita Manzini

“…In phonology, segmental content has been predominantly represented in terms of binary features. Although binary features may provide an elegant description of…”
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Morphological and Syntactic (non-)finiteness. A Comparison between English and Balkan Languages by M. Rita Manzini, Anna Roussou

“…In English, finiteness has an extremely limited realization in morphology and is almost exclusively defined in syntax. In particular, there are two main…”
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Enclisis/Proclisis Alternations in Romance: Allomorphies and (Re)Ordering by Manzini, M. Rita, Savoia, Leonardo M.

“…Romance clitic pronouns appear to the left of the verb in I and to the right of the verb in C. This alternation correlates with: (a) allomorphy, specifically…”
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Middle-passive voice in Albanian and Greek by MANZINI, M. RITA, ROUSSOU, ANNA, SAVOIA, LEONARDO M.

“…In this paper we consider middle-passive voice in Greek and Albanian, which shows a many-to-many mapping between LF and PF. Different morphosyntactic shapes…”
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a/bare finite complements in Southern Italian varieties: mono-clausal or bi-clausal syntax? by M. Rita Manzini, Paolo Lorusso, Leonardo M. Savoia

“…In dialects of Apulia, Calabria and Sicily a restricted number of verbs, including ‘stay/be’, ‘go’, ‘come’ and ‘want’ embed finite complements, either bare or…”
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Parameters, Binding Theory, and Learnability by M. Rita Manzini, Wexler, Kenneth

“…A theory of grammar learnability is developed, based on the notion that lang acquisition involves determining the values of linguistic parameters. It is argued…”
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Locality, Minimalism, and Parasitic Gaps by MANZINI, M. R

“…Noam Chomsky's suggestion (1993) that the antecedent government clause of his own formulation of the empty category principle (ECP) reduces to an economy…”
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A minimalist theory of A-movement and control by Manzini, M.Rita, Roussou, Anna

“…In this article, we point out some problems in the theory of A-movement and control within Principles and Parameters models, and specifically within the…”
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Italian and Arbëresh (Albanian) causatives by Anna Roussou, M. Rita Manzini

“…Causative verbs in the Albanian variety of Arbëresh take a finite complement clause, with the causee realized as a nominative or as an oblique (like the…”
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Italian and Arbëresh (Albanian) causatives: Case and Agree by Roussou, Anna, Manzini, M. Rita

“…Causative verbs in the Albanian variety of Arbëresh take a finite complement clause, with the causee realized as a nominative or as an oblique (like the…”
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The Agreement of Structural Obliques Parameter. Pseudopartitives, DOM and Partitive Articles in Romance by Manzini, M. Rita

“…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…”
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