The Agreement of Structural Obliques Parameter. Pseudopartitives, DOM and partitive articles in Romance
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Publication date: 21.03.2019
Studies in Polish Linguistics, Special Volume, Special Volume 1 (2019), pp. 35 - 51
https://doi.org/10.4467/23005920SPL.19.005.10985Authors
The Agreement of Structural Obliques Parameter. Pseudopartitives, DOM and partitive articles in Romance
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.
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