Greek Noun Fragment

Greek nominal parameters. Greek is a [-arg, +pred] language like Romance: bare nouns are predicative (need D for argumenthood), bare plurals cannot denote kinds without an overt definite article.

Greek differs from Romance in DP-internal syntax: adjectives are prenominal (as in Germanic), indicating that N cannot raise past the α constituent (opaque α). This means proper names cannot satisfy strong D by N-raising and must instead appear with an overt definite article.

def Fragments.Greek.Nouns.greekMapping : Semantics.Lexical.Noun.Kind.Chierchia1998.NominalMapping

Greek is a [-arg, +pred] language: nouns are predicates, bare arguments are not licensed for kind reference. Same as Romance (@cite{chierchia-1998}).

Equations

• Fragments.Greek.Nouns.greekMapping = Semantics.Lexical.Noun.Kind.Chierchia1998.NominalMapping.predOnly

def Fragments.Greek.Nouns.greekBlocking : Semantics.Lexical.Noun.Kind.Chierchia1998.BlockingPrinciple

Greek has a rich article system that blocks bare arguments.

Equations

• Fragments.Greek.Nouns.greekBlocking = { determiners := ["o", "i", "to", "oi", "ta", "enas", "mia", "ena"], iotaBlocked := true, existsBlocked := true, downBlocked := true }

def Fragments.Greek.Nouns.barePluralLicensed : Bool

Greek bare plurals are not licensed as arguments.

Equations

• Fragments.Greek.Nouns.barePluralLicensed = !Fragments.Greek.Nouns.greekBlocking.downBlocked

def Fragments.Greek.Nouns.bareSingularLicensed : Bool

Greek bare singulars are not licensed as arguments.

Equations

• Fragments.Greek.Nouns.bareSingularLicensed = false