Kučerová (2018) puts forward a novel theory of the morphology and interpretation of nominal gender in Italian. Here, we take issue with this theory from both empirical and theoretical standpoints. We first show that several generalizations presented as empirical support for it are incorrect. We then point out three fundamental theoretical challenges. First, the proposed three-way classification of nouns does not represent the full range of facts, because it does not take into account plural morphology or the interdependencies of class and gender features. Second, the account of gender mismatch in terms of “semicon-servativity” fails to capture the Italian data, once the full paradigm is considered. Finally, the use of phase theory to model contextual valuation of gender faces an insurmountable lookahead problem.

Kučerová (2018) 提出了一种关于意大利语名义性别的形态和解释的新颖理论。在这里，我们从实证和理论的角度对这一理论提出质疑。我们首先证明作为经验支持而提出的几个概括是不正确的。然后我们指出三个基本的理论挑战。首先，所提出的名词三向分类并不能代表全部事实，因为它没有考虑复数形态或类别和性别特征的相互依赖性。其次，一旦考虑到完整的范式，“半保守性”方面对性别不匹配的解释就无法捕捉到意大利的数据。最后，使用阶段理论来模拟性别的情境评估面临着一个难以克服的前瞻问题。