ON SILENT COLOR IN ROMANIAN

Abstract

The main aim of the present paper is to show that there is a silent noun COLOR in Romanian (following Kayne 2005), in constructions such as stiloul e COLOR roșu pen.DEF is COLOR red. Silent COLOR is a qualitative classifier, occupying therefore the head of the Classifier Phrase. This silent noun can thus be added to the inventory of silent nouns in Romanian, such as NUMBER, AMOUNT and TYPE (see Tănase-Dogaru 2008, 2009, 2013, Constantinescu & Tănase-Dogaru 2007).