Apulian qualitative binominal Noun Phrases
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[1] Università di Siena
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- Localización: Italian journal of linguistics, ISSN 1120-2726, Vol. 35, Nº. 2, 2023, págs. 145-174
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
We investigate the morphosyntax of qualitative binominal constructions in a Southern Italo-Romance language from the Apulian town of San Marco in Lamis. Qualitative binominal constructions are complex noun phrases like ‘a jewelN1 of a villageN2 ’, appearing here prepositionally (with the preposition də, ‘of’, allowing definites, indefinites, and demonstratives) and non-prepositionally (only allowing definites with definite articles and not proper names). We propose that, in the latter, a categorial match in the determiner layer, which we call ‘match D’, relates N1 and N2 . N1 is embedded as a noun, allowing for: (i) the recursive DP strategy of non-prepositional genitives, and (ii) the extension of this mechanism to qualitative binominal constructions. This leads to the impossibility of syntactic extraction, which we connect to the concept of phase. With non-denominal N1 s, N1 ’s article is treated as a head-agreeing adjectival linker, forming a constituent with the modifier but agreeing with the head. A phrase is interpreted as a qualitative binominal construction if N1 and N2 share the same number features and if the features of N1 do not allow for it to be interpreted as the possessum of N2 . We also discuss external agreement with the construction, presenting data supporting the relevance of the [+human] feature for agreement relations.
