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URL:https://evenements.uqam.ca/evenements/conference-en-syntaxe-animacy-gen
 der-and-number-in-the-noun-phrase-par-samuel-jambrovic/32312?date=2025-12-
 03_12-45-00
LOCATION:UQAM - Pavillon Hubert-Aquin (A) (400\, rue Saint-Catherine Est\,
  Montréal )
SUMMARY:Conférence en syntaxe: «Animacy\, gender\, and number in the noun
  phrase» par Samuel Jambrović
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DESCRIPTION:Titre : Animacy\, gender\, and number in the noun phrase\n\nCon
 férencier : Samuel Jambrović\, boursier postdoctoral\, Université McGi
 ll \n\n\n\nRésumé : The nouns femme and maison are both feminine in
  French\, yet only femme presupposes femaleness. Analogously\, the nouns
  organes and viscères are both plural in form\, yet only organes is
  countable. To account for these differences\, many authors resort to a sy
 stem of gender and number features where each value comes in two guises: o
 ne that is \"interpretable\"\, or legible at logical form\, and another th
 at is \"uninterpretable\"\, or illegible at logical form (Matushansky 2013
 \; Kramer 2014\, 2015\; Anagnostopoulou 2017\; Smith 2017\; Wurmbrand 2017
 a\,b\; Panagiotidis 2019\; Shen &amp\; Smith 2019\; Smith 2021\; Steriopol
 o 2024\; Adamson &amp\; Anagnostopoulou 2024\; Adamson 2025). In this appr
 oach\, femme would have an interpretable feminine feature\, or [iF]\, on
  the nominalizer n\, and maison would have an uninterpretable feminine 
 feature\, or [uF]\, on n. \n\n\nBased on the phenomenon of differential 
 object marking in Spanish\, I defend Panagiotidis's (2019) claim that the 
 extended nominal projection contains a dedicated animacy phrase (AnimP) an
 d argue that gender features only have consequences for interpretation wh
 en they are hosted by Anim. Accordingly\, I represent femme as an AnimP 
 with an [F] feature on Anim and maison as an nP with an [F] feature on
  n. Not only does this view obviate the need for interpretable and uninte
 rpretable versions of the same feature\, but it also captures animate femi
 nine nouns like personne 'person'\, which does not presuppose femaleness
 \, by positioning its [F] feature on n rather than Anim. As for number f
 eatures\, I propose that they make a semantic contribution on Div (Num) bu
 t not on n. For example\, organes is a DivP with a [PL] feature on Div\
 , and viscères is a DivP with a [PL] feature on n. \n\n\nIn short\, g
 ender and number features only factor into the denotation of a noun when t
 hey are introduced by the projections where they \"belong\": AnimP and Div
 P\, respectively. When the locus of these features is n instead of Anim
  or Div\, they participate in syntactic operations like concord and agreem
 ent but have no bearing on interpretation. \n\nMot-clés : nombre\, anim
 éité\, Accords\, genre\, espagnol\, français\, anglais\, Grammaire\, mo
 rphologie\, morphosyntaxe\, syntaxe\n\n
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