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All Things Morphology: Its independence and its interfaces
Edited by Sedigheh Moradi, Marcia Haag, Janie Rees-Miller and Andrija Petrovic
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 353] 2021
► pp. 215–236

Chapter 12
Multi-layered default in Ripano

| University of Zurich
| University of Zurich

This chapter deals with morphological and syntactic defaults in Ripano (Italo-Romance), using the toolkit of Network Morphology and Canonical Typology. Analyzing noun and adjective inflection, we propose a unitary inheritance hierarchy for nominals which features a general default plus overrides specifying class-specific rules of exponence. The hierarchy accounts for gender assignment along with inflectional classes, as Ripano has overwhelmingly overt gender. This also offers the link to the syntax, because in Ripano overt gender is not context-free but depends on syntactic context, a property never described for any other language of the world. We show that one can distinguish a normal vs an exceptional-case default and conclude on how these relate to the morphological default established in the inheritance hierarchy.

Keywords: default, inheritance, overt/covert gender, normal-/exceptional-case default, Italo-Romance, Network Morphology, Canonical Typology
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Inheritance and default in nominal morphology
    • 2.1Noun inflectional classes
    • 2.2The rise of overt gender in Ripano
    • 2.3Adjective inflectional classes
  • 3.Two syntactic defaults in Ripano: Preliminaries on Ripano syntax
    • 3.1Normal-case default
    • 3.2Exceptional-case default
  • 4.Conclusion
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 25 August 2021
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