There is only one way to agree
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20344102 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Hedde Zeijlstra (University of Amsterdam, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Publication date | 2012-01-07 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Linguistic Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0167-6318 • E-ISSN: 1613-3676 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/tlr-2012-0017 |
| OpenAlex | W2313592175 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 104 |
Current minimalism takes syntactic operations Agree and Move to be triggered by underlying feature checking requirements (Chomsky 1995, 2000, 2001, Pesetsky & Torrego 2004). This standard version of Agree/Move suffers from at least five problems: (i) it does not explain the existence of Reverse Agree; (ii) it does not explain the existence of Multiple Agree; (iii) it does not explain the behavior of Concord phenomena; (iv) it does not explain the triggering of intermediate steps in successive cyclic movement; and (v) the [EPP]-feature itself remains unmotivated. Moreover, I argue that two recent proposals (Pesetsky & Torrego 2007, Bošković 2007) solve some, but not all of these problems. Finally, I argue that all these problems disappear once a simpler version of Agree is adopted where uninterpretable features can only be checked if they are c-commanded by a matching interpretable feature and not the other way round
Distinctive feature · Feature matching · Linguistics · Minimalist program · Syntax · Computer Science · Logic, Reasoning, and Knowledge · Mathematics · Natural Language Processing Techniques · Philosophy · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation · Artificial Intelligence
Plural Possession in Turkish and Sakha
The Syntax of Secondary Predicates in Standard Arabic
Arguments for top-down derivations in syntax
Upward agreement and syntactic counterfeeding in Lubukusu
United Cyclic Agree
N Class and its Interpretation
(Negative) Polarity Items in Catalan and Other Trans-Pyrenean Romance Languages
PF-Representation of Tense Feature on DPs
The Rise of an Indefinite Article in Polish
The Logophoric Complementizer in Laz
Indirect agree in Lubukusu complementizer agreement
Go get, come see
Closest conjunct agreement is an illusion
Bare Nominals in Brazilian Portuguese
Feature sharing in agreement
An agreement-based analysis of extraction from nominals
Not in the first place
DP-internal semantic agreement
Licensing Double Negation in NC and non-NC languages
Reducing pro and PRO to a single source
Rise of the Auxiliaries
What ellipsis can do for phases and what it can’t, but not how
Anaphor Binding
External Arguments in Transitivity Alternations
A Two-Tiered Theory of Control
Complementizer Agreement
Long‐Distance Agreement
Long‐Distance Anaphora
Linkers and agreement
Counter-cyclic merge as a last resort for adjuncts
Indexical shift in Tabasaran
On the interpretation of expressive adjectives
Honorification as Agree in Korean and beyond
Hybrid agreement with English quantifier partitives
Control and intermediate scrambling
Feature deletion by head movement – A new solution to agreement asymmetries in Modern Standard Arabic
Timing-driven derivation of a NOM/ACC agreement pattern
Search downward
On definiteness and person in Romanian vocatives
Licensing and anaphora in Tenyidie
Two is better than one
The Culprit-Hypothesis
The neural basis of Number and Person phi-features processing
The Case and Finiteness Restrictions of Italian Relative che
D-Linked wh-phrase in Arabic
Satisfying the composite probe on the Topic head in Mandarin Chinese
On the Absence of Propositional Negation from Hungarian Polar e ‐Interrogatives
When estar is not there
Response Systems
Reflexives and Reflexivity
The syntax of individuating and measuring pseudo-partitives in Alasha Mongolian
Some thoughts on the complexity of syntactic complexity
Against Upwards Agree
Inchoatives in causative clothing
The morphosyntax of Ezafe in Southern Zazaki
Negative concord by phase
Negative Concord and locality in Russian
Evidence for constraints on probing dynamics
Epp
Definiteness in Laki
Mood alternation in German
Adjectival predicates in finite and non-finite clauses
Syntax of negation in corrective but sentences
Locative inversion and T-movement in English
On Adjoined Possessors
On T-Movement in English
The dynamics of yes and no in and as context
Subjunctive mood in Griko
On the status of NCIs
Distributive numerals in Albanian
The syntax of semantic agreement in English
A syntactic account of auxiliary selection in French
The diachronic syntax of negated adjuncts in English
Soft locality restrictions in negative concord
Movement and cyclic Agree
Exhaustive control as movement
Clause-internal successive cyclicity
On case-copying reflexives
Bouletic concord
Clausal agreement on adverbs in Andi
Labeling, Concord, and Nominal Syntax in Turkish
Negative Concord without Agree
Person Agreement with Anaphors
Category-Sensitive Escape from Islands in Limbum and Asante Twi
Encoding Nonbinary Reference in Syntax
Interpreting argumental n-words as answers to negative wh-questions
Unifying two general licensors of completive adverbials in syntax
Diachronic changes in negative expressions
The Rich Agreement Hypothesis Rehabilitated
Cyclic Expansion in Agree
Opaque Intervention
Can Agree and Labeling Be Reduced to Minimal Search
A New Diagnostic for CyclicWh-Movement
Checking Up on (φ-)Agree
Patterns of Movement Reflexes as the Result of the Order of Merge and Agree
On the Symmetry of Case in Conjunction
Nominal ellipsis reveals concord in Moksha Mordvin
Ergative as Perfective Oblique
Agree as information transmission over dependencies
The Morphosyntax of Magahi Addressee Agreement
| Unique citing works | 104 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 7,43 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2026 (15) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 81 |