The Person–Case Constraint and the Inverse Agreement Constraint are manifestations of the same Inverse Topicality Constraint
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20344138 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Katalin E Ki (0000-0003-2054-4593, Pázmány Péter Catholic University, corresponding author), Katalin É Kiss |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 365-395 |
| Publication date | 2017-10-26 |
| 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-2017-0004 |
| OpenAlex | W2760914333 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 17 |
This paper first claims that the Inverse Agreement Constraint and the Person–Case Constraint attested in overlapping sets of Uralic languages are manifestations of the same Inverse Topicality Constraint, requiring that the structural hierarchy of topicalized constituents correspond to the ranking of their referents in the Animacy/Topicality Hierarchy. Then it argues that it is the hypothesized Inverse Topicality Constraint that also underlies the Person– Case Constraints restricting the cooccurrence of clitics in ditransitive and ergative–absolutive constructions across languages. It is shown that alternative analyses of the Person–Case Constraint, e.g., those deriving it from the mechanism of multiple Agree, cannot account for the whole range of data attested
Animacy · Hierarchy · Inverse · Linguistics · Optimality theory · Phonology · Political science · Computer Science · Law · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Linguistics and language evolution · Mathematics · Philosophy · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation · Artificial Intelligence
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| Unique citing works | 4 |
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| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2025 (8) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |