Gender at the edge
(2019) In Linguistic Inquiry p.723-750- Abstract
- This article develops an analysis of Gender whereby D-gender enters
grammar as a feature variable (edge linker), without a fixed value,
either probing n or scanning the context for a value. Only the latter
strategy is available in pronominal gender languages such as English,
as they lack n-gender, whereas both strategies are applicable in ngender
languages, variably so for variable DPs, depending on their nP
content and on context. The article adopts the idea that context linking
does not merely involve pragmatic context scanning but also has a
syntactic side to it, edge computation, whereby context-scanned and
recycled features are computed at the phase edge in relation to CPinternal
elements, via... (More) - This article develops an analysis of Gender whereby D-gender enters
grammar as a feature variable (edge linker), without a fixed value,
either probing n or scanning the context for a value. Only the latter
strategy is available in pronominal gender languages such as English,
as they lack n-gender, whereas both strategies are applicable in ngender
languages, variably so for variable DPs, depending on their nP
content and on context. The article adopts the idea that context linking
does not merely involve pragmatic context scanning but also has a
syntactic side to it, edge computation, whereby context-scanned and
recycled features are computed at the phase edge in relation to CPinternal
elements, via edge linkers. The context-linking approach has
been previously launched for Tense and Person. This article extends
it to Gender, thereby generalizing over context-sensitive grammatical
categories and developing a novel view of the overall architecture of
grammar. (Less)
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- Sigurdsson, Halldor Armann LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2019
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- context linking, edge computation, edge linkers, D-gender, Gender, feature recycling, Icelandic, n-gender, pronominal gender languages
- in
- Linguistic Inquiry
- pages
- 723 - 750
- publisher
- MIT Press
- external identifiers
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- scopus:85072968955
- ISSN
- 1530-9150
- DOI
- 10.1162/ling_a_00329
- project
- Pronouns and pronominal features
- “Jag vill vara dig”: Nominative and oblique case in Modern Swedish
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- 4c8d5caf-cd9a-4f6a-aed2-f37017e8620e
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- https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/ling_a_00329
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abstract = {{This article develops an analysis of Gender whereby D-gender enters<br/>grammar as a feature variable (edge linker), without a fixed value,<br/>either probing n or scanning the context for a value. Only the latter<br/>strategy is available in pronominal gender languages such as English,<br/>as they lack n-gender, whereas both strategies are applicable in ngender<br/>languages, variably so for variable DPs, depending on their nP<br/>content and on context. The article adopts the idea that context linking<br/>does not merely involve pragmatic context scanning but also has a<br/>syntactic side to it, edge computation, whereby context-scanned and<br/>recycled features are computed at the phase edge in relation to CPinternal<br/>elements, via edge linkers. The context-linking approach has<br/>been previously launched for Tense and Person. This article extends<br/>it to Gender, thereby generalizing over context-sensitive grammatical<br/>categories and developing a novel view of the overall architecture of<br/>grammar.}},
author = {{Sigurdsson, Halldor Armann}},
issn = {{1530-9150}},
keywords = {{context linking; edge computation; edge linkers; D-gender; Gender; feature recycling; Icelandic; n-gender; pronominal gender languages}},
language = {{eng}},
pages = {{723--750}},
publisher = {{MIT Press}},
series = {{Linguistic Inquiry}},
title = {{Gender at the edge}},
url = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/ling_a_00329}},
doi = {{10.1162/ling_a_00329}},
year = {{2019}},
}