Person, case, and agreement : the morphosyntax of inverse agreement and global case splits / András Bárány.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bárány, András, author.

Series:

Rethinking comparative syntax

Oxford linguistics

[Oxford linguistics]

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Morphosyntax.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Case grammar.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Agreement.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Person.

Physical Description:

1 volume ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018.

Contents:

1 Person, case, and agreement 1

1.1 Introduction 1

1.2 Differential object marking 2

1.3 Person features and hierarchies 5

1.3.1 Hierarchies and functional approaches to DOM 7

1.4 Case and agreement 8

1.5 Theoretical assumptions 11

1.5.1 Cyclic Agree 12

1.5.2 Agree can fail 14

1.5.3 Case features 15

1.5.4 Syntax and morphology 16

1.6 The sample of languages 17

2 Differential object marking in Hungarian 20

2.1 The Hungarian noun phrase and φ-features 20

2.2 Differential object agreement in Hungarian 23

2.2.1 Direct objects and subject agreement 25

2.2.2 Direct objects and object agreement 30

2.3 Analysis 37

2.3.1 Object agreement is not semantic 38

2.3.2 D and person 42

2.3.3 Deriving agreement 43

2.3.4 Putting the pieces together: agreement in the clause 51

2.3.5 Interim summary 53

2.4 Conclusions 53

3 Inverse agreement in Hungarian 55

3.1 Introduction 55

3.2 Object agreement with personal pronouns 56

3.2.1 The distribution of object agreement with personal pronouns 58

3.3 Deriving inverse agreement in Hungarian 62

3.3.1 Arguments for covert agreement 69

3.3.2 Third person arguments 73

3.3.3 Interim summary 74

3.4 Spelling out agreement 75

3.4.1 Hungarian verb morphology and spell-out rules 76

3.4.2 Revised spell-out rules 82

3.4.3 Verbal agreement and possessive suffixes 83

3.4.4 Further issues in verb morphology 86

3.4.5 Interim summary 89

3.5 Other analyses of object agreement 89

3.5.1 Agreement with third person objects 90

3.5.2 Agreement with first, second, and third person objects 91

3.5.3 Inclusive reference, again 95

3.5.4 Interim summary 99

3.6 Summary and conclusions 99

3.7 Appendix: full derivations 100

3.7.1 Direct configuration 100

3.7.2 Inverse configuration 101

3.7.3 Two third person arguments 102

4 Agreement and global case splits: agreement determining case 104

4.1 Introduction 104

4.2 Case studies: inverse agreement and global case splits 106

4.2.1 Kashmiri 106

4.2.2 Sahaptin 108

4.3 Case assignment and cyclicity 110

4.3.1 CASE features, case assignment, and impoverishment 114

4.4 Analysis 117

4.4.1 Global case splits on subject and object 117

4.4.2 Global case splits and animacy 126

4.4.3 Crossing the divide between direct and inverse 135

4.5 Discussion and conclusions 145

4.5.1 Other approaches to global case splits 145

4.5.2 Functional heads and probes 148

4.5.3 Conclusions 149

5 Alignment in transitive clauses: case determining agreement 151

5.1 Introduction 151

5.2 Case, agreement, and Bobaljik's generalizations 152

5.2.1 Hindi and Nepali 152

5.2.2 Bobaljik's generalizations 153

5.2.3 Marathi 155

5.3 Analysis 157

5.3.1 Theoretical assumptions 158

5.3.2 Case and case features 159

5.3.3 Deriving agreement in Hindi, Nepali, and Marathi 161

5.3.4 Languages with two φ-probes 175

5.3.5 Splits between one and two probes 183

5.3.6 A language with three φ-probes: Kashmiri 187

5.4 Conclusions 191

6 A parameter hierarchy for agreement 193

6.1 A hierarchical approach to parameters 193

6.2 Cross-linguistic variation in DOM 194

6.2.1 Modelling dependencies 196

6.3 Conclusions: parameters of DOM? 199.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Electronic version: Bárány, Andras. Person, case, and agreement.

ISBN:

9780198804185

0198804180

OCLC:

1016946476