Underspecification of nominal functional categories in Arabic and West Slavic

IF 0.4 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS

Journal of Slavic Linguistics Pub Date : 2024-04-03 DOI:10.1353/jsl.2022.a923079

Ivona Kučerová, Adam Szczegielniak

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Assuming that features on functional heads are variables (Borer 2005), we expect to find syntactic operations and functional elements that target and manipulate these variables beyond matching and valuation in agree. We argue that such syntactic operations and functional elements exist. This paper presents such a functional element: a polarity operator manipulating features of a nominal functional head it modifies. The empirical motivation for our proposal comes from parallel systematic homophony over the same set of functional interpretations and features within the nominal extended projection in West Slavic (here, Czech and Polish) and Arabic dialects, primarily Levantine Arabic.

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阿拉伯语和西斯拉夫语中名义功能类别的不明确性

摘要假定功能词头上的特征是变量（Borer，2005 年），我们期望找到针对和操纵这些变量的句法操作和功能元素，而不仅仅是同意中的匹配和估值。我们认为这种句法操作和功能元素是存在的。本文提出了这样一种功能元素：极性操作符，它可以操纵其所修饰的名词性功能词头的特征。我们提出这一建议的实证动机来自于在西斯拉夫语（此处为捷克语和波兰语）和阿拉伯语方言（主要是黎凡特阿拉伯语）中，对名义扩展投影中的同一组功能解释和特征的平行系统同音。

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Journal of Slavic Linguistics LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS-

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期刊介绍： Journal of Slavic Linguistics, or JSL, is the official journal of the Slavic Linguistics Society. JSL publishes research articles and book reviews that address the description and analysis of Slavic languages and that are of general interest to linguists. Published papers deal with any aspect of synchronic or diachronic Slavic linguistics – phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, or pragmatics – which raises substantive problems of broad theoretical concern or proposes significant descriptive generalizations. Comparative studies and formal analyses are also published. Different theoretical orientations are represented in the journal. One volume (two issues) is published per year, ca. 360 pp.