Case opacity and Cliticization: On intervention and the triggers of different agreement patterns
We will show that there are two types of languages which involve different mechanisms in obviating Minimality Violations/Defective Intervention and Case Opacity: Agreement languages of Punjabi/Icelandic-type with default agreement and Movement languages of Romanian/Spanish-type with phi-featur...
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| description | We will show that there are two types of languages which involve
different mechanisms in obviating Minimality Violations/Defective Intervention and Case
Opacity: Agreement languages of Punjabi/Icelandic-type with default agreement and
Movement languages of Romanian/Spanish-type with phi-feature movement in form of
cliticization. On the basis of rich empirical data we show that Case Opacity represents a
case of defective intervention in agreement as the features of the phases introducing the
oblique arguments block the agreement with the verb. Potential counterexamples can be
accounted for by assuming that (oblique) clitics, in some languages, do not always move
to T, so that the phi-features of the arguments they introduce still intervene and give rise
to default agreement – as in Vafsi and some other Western Iranian varieties. Crucially, our
approach has theoretical implications for the theory of case, cliticization and linear order |
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| spelling | doaj.art-8b9d8960383246f59189db9bcec79cbf2022-12-22T01:23:01ZporUniversidade do PortoLinguística1646-61952017-12-011299126Case opacity and Cliticization: On intervention and the triggers of different agreement patternsMihaela Marchis MorenoLudovico FrancoWe will show that there are two types of languages which involve different mechanisms in obviating Minimality Violations/Defective Intervention and Case Opacity: Agreement languages of Punjabi/Icelandic-type with default agreement and Movement languages of Romanian/Spanish-type with phi-feature movement in form of cliticization. On the basis of rich empirical data we show that Case Opacity represents a case of defective intervention in agreement as the features of the phases introducing the oblique arguments block the agreement with the verb. Potential counterexamples can be accounted for by assuming that (oblique) clitics, in some languages, do not always move to T, so that the phi-features of the arguments they introduce still intervene and give rise to default agreement – as in Vafsi and some other Western Iranian varieties. Crucially, our approach has theoretical implications for the theory of case, cliticization and linear orderhttp://ojs.letras.up.pt/index.php/EL/article/view/3421/3141caseagreement, clitic doublingapplicative headdefective interventionexperiencer |
| spellingShingle | Mihaela Marchis Moreno Ludovico Franco Case opacity and Cliticization: On intervention and the triggers of different agreement patterns Linguística case agreement, clitic doubling applicative head defective intervention experiencer |
| title | Case opacity and Cliticization: On intervention and the triggers of different agreement patterns |
| title_full | Case opacity and Cliticization: On intervention and the triggers of different agreement patterns |
| title_fullStr | Case opacity and Cliticization: On intervention and the triggers of different agreement patterns |
| title_full_unstemmed | Case opacity and Cliticization: On intervention and the triggers of different agreement patterns |
| title_short | Case opacity and Cliticization: On intervention and the triggers of different agreement patterns |
| title_sort | case opacity and cliticization on intervention and the triggers of different agreement patterns |
| topic | case agreement, clitic doubling applicative head defective intervention experiencer |
| url | http://ojs.letras.up.pt/index.php/EL/article/view/3421/3141 |
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