TY - JOUR
TI - The Agreement of Structural Obliques Parameter. Pseudopartitives, DOM and partitive articles in Romance
AU - Manzini, M. Rita
TI - The Agreement of Structural Obliques Parameter. Pseudopartitives, DOM and partitive articles in Romance
AB - 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. 
VL - Special Volume
IS - Special Volume 1 (2019)
PY - 2019
SN - 1732-8160
C1 - 2300-5920
SP - 35
EP - 51
DO - 10.4467/23005920SPL.19.005.10985
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/studies-in-polish-linguistics/article/the-agreement-of-structural-obliques-parameter-pseudopartitives-dom-and-partitive-articles-in-romance
KW - partitive
KW - pseudopartitive
KW - Differential Object Marking
KW - labelling