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I significati delle nominalizzazioni in -ATA e i loro correlati morfologici

Acquaviva, Paolo (Bulzoni Editore, 2005)
Lexical decomposition meets conceptual atomism

Acquaviva, Paolo ; Panagiotidis, Phoevos (Società Editrice il Mulino, 2012-07)

Asking what can be a substantive word in natural language is closely related to asking what can be a lexical concept. However, studies on lexical concepts in cognitive psychology, philosophy and linguistics have little ...
The morphological dimension of polarity licensing

Acquaviva, Paolo (De Gruyter, 2002)

Polarity items must, by definition, fit inside the scope of their licenser; items like any N, in addition, appear to require a c-commanding and overt licenser. It is argued that the relevant restriction refers to precedence, ...
Constraining inherent inflection: Number and Nominal Aspect

Acquaviva, Paolo (De Gruyter, 2009-07)

Since Booij (1994, 1996) it has become increasingly clear that inflectional morphology can take part in lexeme formation and compounding. Booij (1994) recognized the need for substantive constraints on the ways inflection ...
Goidelic inherent plurals and the morphosemantics of number

Acquaviva, Paolo (Elsevier, 2006-11)

After numbers above 2, nouns are singular or plural depending on the language. But in Irish and Scottish some nouns must be singular and others plural, in a variety of dialectal patterns. Once the semantic basis underlying ...