Towards a theory of morphology-driven marking in the lexicon: The case of the state

ArXi:2604.03422v1 Announce Type: new All languages have a noun category, but its realisation varies considerably. Depending on the language, semantic and/or morphosyntactic differences may be or less pronounced. This paper explores these variations, using Riffian as a reference point before extending the analysis to other languages. We propose a formal model termed morphology-driven marking. Nouns are organised into modular cognitive sets, each with its own morphological template and unmarked form.