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Proceedings of the 25th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics edited by Donald Baumer, David Montero, and Michael Scanlon ISBN 1-57473-415-6 library binding vii+461 pages publication date: 2006 published by Cascadilla Proceedings Project, Somerville, MA, USA Table of contents Abstract Ascander Dost and Vera Gribanova Definiteness Marking in the Bulgarian 132-140 (complete pdf) This paper presents a lexicalist analysis of Bulgarian definiteness marking, arguing against the claim -- made in Embick and Noyer 2001 -- that the definite article's distribution must be stated in syntactic terms. The paper derives the distribution of the affix through the interaction of a lexical rule with syntactic constraints on DP licensing. The analysis maintains compatibility with a lexicalist set of assumptions, and addresses some aspects of the Embick and Noyer (2001) approach that remain problematic due to the absence of pre-syntactic composition. The authors conclude that a distinction between lexical and syntactic modes of composition allows for a more elegant account of the article's empirical properties, providing further support for a theoretical distinction between (postlexical) clitics and affixes. |