162194 20251017144603.0 doi 10.5565/rev/catjl.483 sideral 144757 ART-2025-144757 eng Marqueta Gracia, Bárbara María Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0002-2199-1689 An Adjunction-Based Approach to Non-Standard Variation ("el microalga", "un alita") 2025 Access copy available to the general public Unrestricted In Spanish, feminine singular nouns beginning with a stressed /a/, such as arma ‘weapon’ and asa ‘handle’, do not take the standard article forms la and una, but el and un. This paper examines the non-standard uses of el and un observed in morphologically complex words, such as prefixed nouns (el microalga) and diminutives (un alita). The hypothesis is that what makes these variants possible is the adjunct status of prefixes and diminutive suffixes. It is claimed that adjuncts do not obligatorily trigger the reassignment of standard forms la and una, like a head would, because they can be late-merged. info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MICINN-AEI/PID2021-123302NB-I00 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess by-nc https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/deed.es info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 3013 567 Universidad de Zaragoza Dpto. Lingüíst.y Liter.Hispán. Área Lengua Española (2025), [30 pp.] Catalan Journal of Linguistics 1695-6885 591617 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/162194/files/texto_completo.pdf Versión publicada 1329673 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/162194/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon icon Versión publicada oai:zaguan.unizar.es:162194 articulos driver 2025-10-17-14:14:41 ARTICLE