Asymmetric Chains and Defective Goals
Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: This paper focuses on two phenomena in Irish agreement, namely complementarity between overt in-situ arguments and agreement, and the obviation of this complementarity under A-movement. An analysis of these facts is offered in terms the defective goal ‘incorporation’ (DGI) mechanism proposed by Roberts (2010), and applied to cases of complementarity in Bantu languages by Iorio (2014), van der Wal (2015, 2020, 2022), as well as asymmetric chains under A-movement, consisting of a full copy and a pronominal φ-feature bundle, cf. similar configurations discussed by Takahashi and Hulsey (2009), Harizanov (2014), Kramer (2014), Baker and Kramer (2018), inter alios. It is shown that this approach accounts for the facts in Irish, and that the same account can be extended to explain facts concerning participial agreement in e.g. Italian. Additional crosslinguistic implications are also considered, particularly with respect to French and Welsh.
Author: Perry, John Joseph
Language: English
Subfield: Language and Linguistics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7112912888
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