Uninterpretable Features Are Incompatible in Morphology with Other Minimalist Postulates
M. Rita Manzini, Leonardo M. Savoia · The MIT Press eBooks · 2008
This chapter examines the theory that both morphological and syntactic structures are constructed from the same set of categories. Focusing on clitic variation across Romance dialects (specifically Italian and Swiss), it argues that it is necessary to redefine the standard morphological feature set (person, number, gender, case). It also suggests that both syntax and morphology should be based on syntactic categories such as nominal class, quantification, and definiteness, and not on the traditional f-features and Case. The chapter also considers plurals and datives, nominatives, Agree, nominal class and person, accusatives, and minimalism.