@inbook{0a7446dd484b4c8b9d1f6f561cb6d609,
title = "N morphology and its interpretation: The neuter in Central Italian varieties and its implications",
abstract = "We characterize Romance inflectional class morphology in Nouns as endowed with a semantic content, providing evidence about its active involvement at the syntax-semantic interface. We argue that the so-called neuter of Central Italian dialects involves coding of the mass/count distinction, which can in turn be interpreted as the reflex of a more primitive property, opposes non-individual content to instances of individual denotation. Indeed the -o neuter inflection of Central Italian varieties is compatible not only with mass nouns but also with eventive contents and with the invariable inflections found with perfect participles of unergative/transitive verbs. We show that mass vs. count semantic content is available in other Indo-European languages and in genetically unrelated languages through nominal class morphology supporting the idea that nominal class is a classifier.",
keywords = "Agreement, Mass/count distinction, Nominal class, Gender, Neuter",
author = "Ludovico Franco and Manzini, {M. Rita} and Savoia, {Leonardo M.}",
note = "UID/LIN/03213/2013; FCT grant IF/00846/2013 ",
year = "2016",
language = "English",
isbn = "978-88-6274-000-0",
series = "Lingua e societ{\`a}. Percorsi di studio",
publisher = "Dell'Orso (Alessandria)",
pages = "51--78",
editor = "{ M. Savoia}, Leonardo and Benedetta Baldi",
booktitle = "La lingua e i parlanti",
}