Variation in the DP and the post-syntactic lexicon

CAHA, Pavel. Variation in the DP and the post-syntactic lexicon. In Viola Schmitt seminar, Humboldt University. 2023.

Basic information

Original name

Variation in the DP and the post-syntactic lexicon

Authors

CAHA, Pavel

Edition

Viola Schmitt seminar, Humboldt University, 2023

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Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Vyžádané přednášky

Field of Study

60203 Linguistics

Country of publisher

Germany

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Organization unit

Faculty of Arts

Keywords in English

variation; nanosyntax; numerals; concord

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Abstract

V originále

The Borer-Chomsky conjecture says that ``all parameters of variation are attributable to differences in the features of particular items in the lexicon'' (Baker 2003). This talk explores this conjecture not in its original meaning (where it pertains to language-particular properties of pre-syntactic lexical items), but in the context of late-insertion theories like Nanosyntax, where the desideratum is to reduce variation to the properties of post-syntactic lexical items (Starke 2014). The empirical discussion will revolve around the variation in number marking of nouns and concord on modifiers.