Agreement Shift in Embedded Reports

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4318271
AutoresDmitry Ganenkov (0000-0001-7334-4902, Department of English and American Studies, Humboldt University of Berlin, [email protected], autor de correspondencia)
Año2023
Volumen54
Número3
Páginas547-570
Fecha de publicación2023-06-23
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaLinguistic Inquiry (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0024-3892 • E-ISSN: 1530-9150
EditorialThe MIT Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1162/ling_a_00449
OpenAlexW3210511177
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas19

The article discusses person agreement in embedded reports in Aqusha Dargwa (Nakh-Daghestanian). In contrast to root clauses, which have obligatory person agreement matching the features of the controller, finite embedded reports allow pronoun-agreement mismatches, such as third person agreement in the presence of a first person singular subject or first person singular agreement in the presence of a third person subject. I argue that person agreement in Aqusha can function in two different modes-plain φ-feature mode and logophoric mode-depending on whether person morphology responds to usual morphological person features or to discourse-related logophoric features. Concentrating on the logophoric mode, I propose that the left periphery of finite embedded reports contains a logophoric complementizer that carries the discourse feature [LOG] and a null pronominal in its specifier specified as [ATTITUDE HOLDER

Agreement · Complementizer · Feature (linguistics) · First person · Linguistics · Mode (computer interface) · Natural language processing · Noun phrase · Pronoun · Root (linguistics) · Specifier · Subject (documents) · Subject pronoun · Syntax · Third person · Computer Science · Language, Linguistics, Cultural Analysis · Linguistic, Cultural, and Literary Studies · Philosophy · Psychology · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation