Amy Rose Deal
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 818740 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Amy Rose Deal |
| NOMBRES | Amy Rose |
| APELLIDO | Deal |
| FIRMA | DEAL A R |
| AFILIACIONES | University of California, Berkeley |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7114-4103 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 16 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 164 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 16 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2009 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
Uncentered attitude reports
I argue for a semantic distinction between two classes of attitude complements. One class is best modeled in terms of possible worlds compatible with what the attitude holder believes/says, in the tradition of Hintikka. The other is best modeled in terms of centered worlds representing the de se perspective of the attitude holder, in the tradition of Chierchia (in turn inspired by Lewis). Much work has assumed that all attitude complements are to…
Constraints on Agreement
Minimalist research on syntactic dependencies over the past two decades has sought a unified understanding of the behavior of φ-agreement (such as subject–verb agreement) and of more traditionally studied long-distance dependencies, such as wh -movement. Both have been attributed to a single abstract operation, Agree. In this review, I discuss proposed constraints on Agree-based dependencies arising from the structures in which Agree operates, fr…
Mayan animacy hierarchy effects and the dynamics of Agree
In many Mayan languages, combinations of subjects and objects are restricted by relative animacy hierarchy effects: subjects must be at least as high as objects in terms of animacy. Building empirically on a novel description of Chuj, as well as reported data for ten additional Mayan languages from across the family, we offer a new approach to these effects. Our analysis builds theoretically on recent work tracing person/animacy restrictions to t…
Dependent Case by Agree
Ergative and accusative behave as dependent cases insofar as their appearance on a nominal depends on the presence of another nominal in the same domain. Recent work has taken the phenomenon of case dependency to challenge the idea that case is assigned via Agree. Focusing on Shawi (Kawapanan; Peru), we show not only that case dependency can be captured via Agree, but also that doing so opens up a new way of understanding the typology of global c…
Interaction, Satisfaction, and the PCC
The Person-Case Constraint (PCC) is a family of restrictions on the relative person of the two objects of a ditransitive. PCC effects offer a testing ground for theories of Agree and of syntactic features, both those on nominals and those found on agreement probes. This article offers a new theory of PCC effects in an interaction/satisfaction theory of Agree (Deal 2015a) and shows the advantages of this framework in capturing PCC typology. On thi…
Raising to Ergative
Applicatives of unaccusatives provide a crucial test case for the inherent-case view of ergativity. If ergative is assigned only to external arguments, in their θ-positions, there can be no "raising to ergative" in applicative unaccusatives; an internal argument subject can never receive ergative case. In this article, I present evidence from Nez Perce (Sahaptian) that this prediction is false. In Nez Perce applicative unaccusatives, the theme ar…
External Possession and Possessor Raising
External possession is a phenomenon where a nominal is syntactically encoded as a verbal dependent but semantically understood as the possessor of one of its co‐arguments. While the general pattern is cross‐linguistically very common, there is much variation in its precise syntax and semantics. In this chapter, I review the classic analyses of external possession as possessor raising and possessor binding. The evidence behind these analyses indic…
Countability distinctions and semantic variation
Plural exponence in the Nez Perce DP
Cyclicity and Connectivity in Nez Perce Relative Clauses
This article studies two aspects of movement in relative clauses, focusing on evidence from Nez Perce. First, I argue that relativization involves cyclic Ā-movement, even in monoclausal relatives: the relative operator moves to Spec,CP via an intermediate position in an Ā outer specifier of TP. The core arguments draw on word order, complementizer choice, and a pattern of case attraction for relative pronouns.Ā cyclicity of this type suggests tha…
Syntactic Ergativity
Some languages showing morphological ergativity in case and/or agreement also show ergative patterns in core syntactic domains—syntactic ergativity. The most-studied type of syntactic ergativity is a ban on the Ā movement of ergative subjects; an additional type concerns the distribution of absolutives in nonfinite clauses. This article first presents the standard view of syntactic ergativity, which is closely connected to the treatment of ergati…
Person-based split ergativity in Nez Perce is syntactic
Nez Perce is one among many ergative languages that consistently use nominative case, rather than ergative, for 1st and 2nd person transitive subjects. Two major lines of analysis have been proposed for the synchronic grammar of this type of ergative split. Morphological analyses approach the phenomenon as a case of syncretism between ergative and nominative in 1st and 2nd person; all transitive subjects are assigned an identical syntax. Syntacti…
Possessor Raising
Various languages allow instances of external possession-possessive encoding without a possessive structure in DP. The analysis of these cases has long been a battleground of raising versus control. I provide a new argument from Nez Perce in support of possessor raising of a type thematically parallel to raising to subject. The possessor phrase moves from a possessum-DP-internal position to an athematic A-position within vP. Like raising to subje…
Modals without scales
Some natural languages do not lexically distinguish between modals of possibility and modals of necessity. From the perspective of languages like English, modals in such languages appear to do double duty: they are used both where possibility modals are expected and where necessity modals are expected. The Nez Perce modal suffix o'qa offers an example of this behavior. I offer a simple account of the flexibility of the o'qa modal centered on the …
Ergative case and the transitive subject
The Origin and Content of Expletives
While expletivetherehas primarily been studied in the context of the existential construction, it has long been known that some but not all lexical verbs are compatible withthereinsertion. This paper argues thatthereinsertion can be used to diagnose vPs with no external argument, ruling out transitives, unergatives, and also inchoatives, which are argued to project an event argument on the edge of vP. Based on the tight link betweenthereinsertion…
The Origin and Content of Expletives
While expletivetherehas primarily been studied in the context of the existential construction, it has long been known that some but not all lexical verbs are compatible withthereinsertion. This paper argues thatthereinsertion can be used to diagnose vPs with no external argument, ruling out transitives, unergatives, and also inchoatives, which are argued to project an event argument on the edge of vP. Based on the tight link betweenthereinsertion…
Ergative case and the transitive subject
Interaction, Satisfaction, and the PCC
The Person-Case Constraint (PCC) is a family of restrictions on the relative person of the two objects of a ditransitive. PCC effects offer a testing ground for theories of Agree and of syntactic features, both those on nominals and those found on agreement probes. This article offers a new theory of PCC effects in an interaction/satisfaction theory of Agree (Deal 2015a) and shows the advantages of this framework in capturing PCC typology. On thi…
Raising to Ergative
Applicatives of unaccusatives provide a crucial test case for the inherent-case view of ergativity. If ergative is assigned only to external arguments, in their θ-positions, there can be no "raising to ergative" in applicative unaccusatives; an internal argument subject can never receive ergative case. In this article, I present evidence from Nez Perce (Sahaptian) that this prediction is false. In Nez Perce applicative unaccusatives, the theme ar…
Modals without scales
Some natural languages do not lexically distinguish between modals of possibility and modals of necessity. From the perspective of languages like English, modals in such languages appear to do double duty: they are used both where possibility modals are expected and where necessity modals are expected. The Nez Perce modal suffix o'qa offers an example of this behavior. I offer a simple account of the flexibility of the o'qa modal centered on the …
Possessor Raising
Various languages allow instances of external possession-possessive encoding without a possessive structure in DP. The analysis of these cases has long been a battleground of raising versus control. I provide a new argument from Nez Perce in support of possessor raising of a type thematically parallel to raising to subject. The possessor phrase moves from a possessum-DP-internal position to an athematic A-position within vP. Like raising to subje…
Plural exponence in the Nez Perce DP
Person-based split ergativity in Nez Perce is syntactic
Nez Perce is one among many ergative languages that consistently use nominative case, rather than ergative, for 1st and 2nd person transitive subjects. Two major lines of analysis have been proposed for the synchronic grammar of this type of ergative split. Morphological analyses approach the phenomenon as a case of syncretism between ergative and nominative in 1st and 2nd person; all transitive subjects are assigned an identical syntax. Syntacti…
Countability distinctions and semantic variation
Cyclicity and Connectivity in Nez Perce Relative Clauses
This article studies two aspects of movement in relative clauses, focusing on evidence from Nez Perce. First, I argue that relativization involves cyclic Ā-movement, even in monoclausal relatives: the relative operator moves to Spec,CP via an intermediate position in an Ā outer specifier of TP. The core arguments draw on word order, complementizer choice, and a pattern of case attraction for relative pronouns.Ā cyclicity of this type suggests tha…
Syntactic Ergativity
Some languages showing morphological ergativity in case and/or agreement also show ergative patterns in core syntactic domains—syntactic ergativity. The most-studied type of syntactic ergativity is a ban on the Ā movement of ergative subjects; an additional type concerns the distribution of absolutives in nonfinite clauses. This article first presents the standard view of syntactic ergativity, which is closely connected to the treatment of ergati…
Dependent Case by Agree
Ergative and accusative behave as dependent cases insofar as their appearance on a nominal depends on the presence of another nominal in the same domain. Recent work has taken the phenomenon of case dependency to challenge the idea that case is assigned via Agree. Focusing on Shawi (Kawapanan; Peru), we show not only that case dependency can be captured via Agree, but also that doing so opens up a new way of understanding the typology of global c…
The Origin and Content of Expletives
While expletivetherehas primarily been studied in the context of the existential construction, it has long been known that some but not all lexical verbs are compatible withthereinsertion. This paper argues thatthereinsertion can be used to diagnose vPs with no external argument, ruling out transitives, unergatives, and also inchoatives, which are argued to project an event argument on the edge of vP. Based on the tight link betweenthereinsertion…
Ergative case and the transitive subject
Modals without scales
Some natural languages do not lexically distinguish between modals of possibility and modals of necessity. From the perspective of languages like English, modals in such languages appear to do double duty: they are used both where possibility modals are expected and where necessity modals are expected. The Nez Perce modal suffix o'qa offers an example of this behavior. I offer a simple account of the flexibility of the o'qa modal centered on the …
Possessor Raising
Various languages allow instances of external possession-possessive encoding without a possessive structure in DP. The analysis of these cases has long been a battleground of raising versus control. I provide a new argument from Nez Perce in support of possessor raising of a type thematically parallel to raising to subject. The possessor phrase moves from a possessum-DP-internal position to an athematic A-position within vP. Like raising to subje…
Syntactic Ergativity
Some languages showing morphological ergativity in case and/or agreement also show ergative patterns in core syntactic domains—syntactic ergativity. The most-studied type of syntactic ergativity is a ban on the Ā movement of ergative subjects; an additional type concerns the distribution of absolutives in nonfinite clauses. This article first presents the standard view of syntactic ergativity, which is closely connected to the treatment of ergati…
Person-based split ergativity in Nez Perce is syntactic
Nez Perce is one among many ergative languages that consistently use nominative case, rather than ergative, for 1st and 2nd person transitive subjects. Two major lines of analysis have been proposed for the synchronic grammar of this type of ergative split. Morphological analyses approach the phenomenon as a case of syncretism between ergative and nominative in 1st and 2nd person; all transitive subjects are assigned an identical syntax. Syntacti…
Plural exponence in the Nez Perce DP
Cyclicity and Connectivity in Nez Perce Relative Clauses
This article studies two aspects of movement in relative clauses, focusing on evidence from Nez Perce. First, I argue that relativization involves cyclic Ā-movement, even in monoclausal relatives: the relative operator moves to Spec,CP via an intermediate position in an Ā outer specifier of TP. The core arguments draw on word order, complementizer choice, and a pattern of case attraction for relative pronouns.Ā cyclicity of this type suggests tha…
External Possession and Possessor Raising
External possession is a phenomenon where a nominal is syntactically encoded as a verbal dependent but semantically understood as the possessor of one of its co‐arguments. While the general pattern is cross‐linguistically very common, there is much variation in its precise syntax and semantics. In this chapter, I review the classic analyses of external possession as possessor raising and possessor binding. The evidence behind these analyses indic…
Countability distinctions and semantic variation
Raising to Ergative
Applicatives of unaccusatives provide a crucial test case for the inherent-case view of ergativity. If ergative is assigned only to external arguments, in their θ-positions, there can be no "raising to ergative" in applicative unaccusatives; an internal argument subject can never receive ergative case. In this article, I present evidence from Nez Perce (Sahaptian) that this prediction is false. In Nez Perce applicative unaccusatives, the theme ar…
Interaction, Satisfaction, and the PCC
The Person-Case Constraint (PCC) is a family of restrictions on the relative person of the two objects of a ditransitive. PCC effects offer a testing ground for theories of Agree and of syntactic features, both those on nominals and those found on agreement probes. This article offers a new theory of PCC effects in an interaction/satisfaction theory of Agree (Deal 2015a) and shows the advantages of this framework in capturing PCC typology. On thi…
Dependent Case by Agree
Ergative and accusative behave as dependent cases insofar as their appearance on a nominal depends on the presence of another nominal in the same domain. Recent work has taken the phenomenon of case dependency to challenge the idea that case is assigned via Agree. Focusing on Shawi (Kawapanan; Peru), we show not only that case dependency can be captured via Agree, but also that doing so opens up a new way of understanding the typology of global c…
Uncentered attitude reports
I argue for a semantic distinction between two classes of attitude complements. One class is best modeled in terms of possible worlds compatible with what the attitude holder believes/says, in the tradition of Hintikka. The other is best modeled in terms of centered worlds representing the de se perspective of the attitude holder, in the tradition of Chierchia (in turn inspired by Lewis). Much work has assumed that all attitude complements are to…
Constraints on Agreement
Minimalist research on syntactic dependencies over the past two decades has sought a unified understanding of the behavior of φ-agreement (such as subject–verb agreement) and of more traditionally studied long-distance dependencies, such as wh -movement. Both have been attributed to a single abstract operation, Agree. In this review, I discuss proposed constraints on Agree-based dependencies arising from the structures in which Agree operates, fr…
Mayan animacy hierarchy effects and the dynamics of Agree
In many Mayan languages, combinations of subjects and objects are restricted by relative animacy hierarchy effects: subjects must be at least as high as objects in terms of animacy. Building empirically on a novel description of Chuj, as well as reported data for ten additional Mayan languages from across the family, we offer a new approach to these effects. Our analysis builds theoretically on recent work tracing person/animacy restrictions to t…
Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (15 obras) · Linguistics (12 obras) · Mathematics (11 obras) · Philosophy (11 obras) · Computer Science (9 obras) · Linguistics and Discourse Analysis (6 obras) · Philosophy (6 obras) · Ergative case (5 obras) · Syntax (5 obras) · Artificial Intelligence (4 obras)