‘Agreement of structural obliques’parameter
Year: 2019
Type: article
Abstract: We consider two sets of facts. The first is thatdomobjects may or may not agree with perfect participles in Indo-Aryan. The second is that (pseudo)partitive subjects may agree with the verb in the plural or not. We account for thedomparameter, basing on the assumption thatdomcorresponds to embedding of a DP under an oblique adposition: if P projects, thedomobject is labelled PP and does not agree; if D projects, it is labelled DP, projecting like any other DP. On the contrary, inherent datives, where P/K is lexically selected, must project P/K and are therefore not goals for Agree. We extend this labelling account to (pseudo)partitives, as well as to optionally agreeing oblique clitics in Romance.
Source: Lingvisticae Investigationes
DOI: 10.1075/li.00030.man
Authors: M. Rita Manzini, Ludovico Franco
Institution: University of Florence
Language: English
Subfield: Language and Linguistics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2958693222