On Unvalued Uninterpretable Features
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The gender of the adjective and the participle depends on the gender of the noun. Green can be feminine, neuter, or masculine; which gender it has depends on the noun it modifies. As Pesetsky & Torrego (2007) (PT) note, the dependence of the gender value of adjectives and participles on the syntactic context in which they occur can be easily captured if they are lexically unvalued for gender: they receive their gender value after undergoing agreement with a noun that already has a valued gender. In contrast to the adjective/participle in (1)-(3), nouns like kola, auto, and automobil have a fixed gender specification: kola is always feminine, auto neuter, and automobil masculine. The most straightforward way of capturing this is to assume nominal gender is lexically valued; in contrast to adjectives/participles, nouns do not receive their gender value during syntactic derivation, hence their gender value does not depend on their syntactic context.
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