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Latin as a split‐ DP language
Author(s) -
Giusti Giuliana,
Iovino Rossella
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
studia linguistica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.187
H-Index - 28
eISSN - 1467-9582
pISSN - 0039-3193
DOI - 10.1111/stul.12045
Subject(s) - computer science , projection (relational algebra) , expression (computer science) , mathematics , combinatorics , linguistics , algorithm , philosophy , programming language
In this paper, we discuss known and less known properties of Latin Nominal Expressions that apparently create a paradox. Despite lack of articles and high productivity in left branch extraction, Latin is not a typical NP ‐language in the sense of Chierchia ([Chierchia, G., 1998]) and Bošković ([Bošković, Ž., 2005], [Boškovic, Ž, 2008]). In many respects, it behaves like its daughter languages, all of which have articles. We solve this paradox proposing a complex nominal structure made of a DP , which hosts overt demonstratives, and a left‐peripheral projection ( LPP ), parallel to the split CP in clauses. This split DP , based on Giusti ([Giusti, G., 1996], [Giusti, G., 2006]), can account both for the freedom of the orders found inside the Nominal Expression and for the occurrence of discontinuous Nominal Expressions.