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Closest c-command, agree and impoverishment: The morphosyntax of non-active voice in Albanian

Kallulli, Dalina and Trommer, Jochen (2011) Closest c-command, agree and impoverishment: The morphosyntax of non-active voice in Albanian. Acta Linguistica Hungarica, 58 (3). pp. 277-296. ISSN 1216-8076

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Abstract

We provide a minimalist syntactic analysis for the morphological realization of non-active voice in Albanian, a paradigm that exhibits a three-way alternation: inflectional affix, clitic and auxiliary choice. We show that the morphological realization of the Albanian non-active voice reflects the hierarchy of functional categories in the clause. More specifically, we argue that the distribution of the morphological means to realize non-active voice in this language is contingent on and regulated by two independently motivated morphosyntactic operations, namely Agree and Impoverishment, which are both governed in crucial respects by closest c-command.

Item Type: Article
Subjects: P Language and Literature / nyelvészet és irodalom > P0 Philology. Linguistics / filológia, nyelvészet
Depositing User: xBarbara xBodnár
Date Deposited: 22 Jun 2017 08:53
Last Modified: 04 Apr 2023 12:57
URI: http://real.mtak.hu/id/eprint/55275

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