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Problems of number inConsistency arise in Italian when singular distributive quantifiers float rightward off of subjects, leaving these subjects plural. The inConsistency arises in the presence of adjectives, participles, and pronominal forms. Different proposals are discussed here for ordering adjective agreement and participle agreement with respect to Quantifier Floating, and different theories of pronominalization phenomena are also discussed. It is shown that significant generalizations about number Consistency can be captured only if a particular ordering for agreement rules and Quantifier Floating is assumed ALONG WITH a particular theory of pronominalization. Thus the data presented here suggest that agreement phenomena and pronominalization must be related.
The recurrent features of a ‘prestige language’ are broadly reviewed. The prevailing socio-political constellation provides motivations for its rise, the ways of acquiring it, the domains it transmits, and the causes of its decline. The process of its nativization can be analysed synchronically in terms of creolization, and diachronically in terms of stratigraphy. The linking of a native language to the dominant culture results in either substratum or superstratum influences. Nativization may be overt—as lexemic, morphosyntactic or phonological borrowing—or it may be covert, expressing itself in style, calques, and metaphors. The lasting impact of the prestige language consists in standardization, the creation of a sprachbund, and a relatively stable culture of bilingualism.