Vicki Carstens

List of John Benjamins publications in which Vicki Carstens is involved.

Articles

Carstens, Vicki 2010 Implications of grammatical gender for the theory of uninterpretable features Exploring Crash-Proof Grammars, Putnam, Michael T. (ed.), pp. 31–58 | Article

I argue that grammatical gender is semantically empty but intrinsically valued, so the strict linkage between uninterpretable and unvalued in Chomsky (2001) cannot be correct. I then demonstrate that gender is infinitely reusable as an “ activity” feature; in contrast, abstract Case activates a DP… read more

Carstens, Vicki 2008 DP in Bantu and Romance The Bantu–Romance Connection: A comparative investigation of verbal agreement, DPs, and information structure, De Cat, Cécile and Katherine Demuth (eds.), pp. 131–165 | Article

The paper considers several aspects of Bantu and Romance DPs, including: (i) Noun Class and grammatical gender; (ii) apparently derivational properties of the two; (iii) ordering among nouns and their modifiers; and (iv) concord in DPs. Several conclusions are argued for. Firstly, Bantu Class is a… read more