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DP in Bantu and Romance
- Author(s): Vicki Carstens 1
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View Affiliations Hide AffiliationsAffiliations:1 University of Missouri-Columbia
- Source: The Bantu–Romance Connection , pp 131-165
- Publication Date September 2008
The paper considers several aspects of Bantu and Romance DPs, including: (i) Noun Class and grammatical gender; (ii) apparently derivational properties of the two; (iii) ordering among nouns and their modifiers; and (iv) concord in DPs. Several conclusions are argued for. Firstly, Bantu Class is a gender system like that of Romance, with gender-specific Spell-Out of number features. Secondly, despite some surface evidence to the contrary, gender/Class is an uninterpretable feature, without derivational functions. Thirdly, DPs of the two languages share a common architecture; and fourth, in both families concord is the result of the Agree relation. Thus many properties of nouns and DPs are common to both language groups, as the hypothesis of UG leads us to expect.
- Affiliations: 1: University of Missouri-Columbia
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