Lexicalizing number and gender in Lunigiana

In this article, I present an analysis of gender and number marking on nouns in a group of Italian dialects. These dialects share the property that the plural morpheme is -i- in both the feminine and the masculine gender in both declension classes. But there is an asymmetry: in contexts where plural...

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Main Author: Knut Tarald Taraldsen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Septentrio Academic Publishing 2009-01-01
Series:Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics
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Online Access:https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/nordlyd/article/view/217