When you have too many features: Auxiliaries, agreement and clitics in Italian varieties

Syntactic variation can be ascribed to a range of factors. The Borer-Chomsky conjecture, as Mark Baker (2008) refers to it, states for instance that all parameters of variation are attributable to differences in the features of particular items (e.g. functional heads) in the lexicon. In this paper,...

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Main Author: Roberta D'Alessandro
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Library of Humanities 2017-05-01
Series:Glossa
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Online Access:http://www.glossa-journal.org/articles/102