Breaking Agreements: Distinguishing Agreement and Clitic Doubling by Their Failures

Breaking Agreements: Distinguishing Agreement and Clitic Doubling by Their Failures

In this article, I propose a novel way to distinguish between agreement and clitic doubling. The innovation lies in examining what happens when the relation between the relevant agreement morphology and the full noun phrase fails to obtain: whether the agreement morpheme still shows up, bearing defa...

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Main Author: Preminger, Omer
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: MIT Press 2010
Subjects:
agreement
clitic doubling
Basque
unergatives
long-distance agreement
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/57465

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