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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| description | 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 default -features, or disappears altogether.
The workings of the proposed diagnostic are demonstrated using a family of constructions in “substandard” Basque (Etxepare 2006). Besides supporting the proposed diagnostic, the analysis of Basque provides a new perspective on the typological status of the Basque agreement system, as well as evidence against the traditional analysis of unergatives in Basque as being underlyingly transitive. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/574652022-09-29T11:10:30Z Breaking Agreements: Distinguishing Agreement and Clitic Doubling by Their Failures Preminger, Omer Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy Preminger, Omer Preminger, Omer agreement clitic doubling Basque unergatives long-distance agreement 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 default -features, or disappears altogether. The workings of the proposed diagnostic are demonstrated using a family of constructions in “substandard” Basque (Etxepare 2006). Besides supporting the proposed diagnostic, the analysis of Basque provides a new perspective on the typological status of the Basque agreement system, as well as evidence against the traditional analysis of unergatives in Basque as being underlyingly transitive. 2010-08-04T13:14:15Z 2010-08-04T13:14:15Z 2009-10 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 0024-3892 1530-9150 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/57465 Preminger, Omer. “Breaking Agreements: Distinguishing Agreement and Clitic Doubling by Their Failures.” Linguistic Inquiry 40.4 (2009): 619-666. © 2009 by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/ling.2009.40.4.619 Linguistic Inquiry Article is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use. application/pdf MIT Press MIT Press |
| spellingShingle | agreement clitic doubling Basque unergatives long-distance agreement Preminger, Omer Breaking Agreements: Distinguishing Agreement and Clitic Doubling by Their Failures |
| title | Breaking Agreements: Distinguishing Agreement and Clitic Doubling by Their Failures |
| title_full | Breaking Agreements: Distinguishing Agreement and Clitic Doubling by Their Failures |
| title_fullStr | Breaking Agreements: Distinguishing Agreement and Clitic Doubling by Their Failures |
| title_full_unstemmed | Breaking Agreements: Distinguishing Agreement and Clitic Doubling by Their Failures |
| title_short | Breaking Agreements: Distinguishing Agreement and Clitic Doubling by Their Failures |
| title_sort | breaking agreements distinguishing agreement and clitic doubling by their failures |
| topic | agreement clitic doubling Basque unergatives long-distance agreement |
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