Past participle agreement in French and Italian
A two-Agree analysis
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22130453 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Akiko Kobayashi (0000-0001-9396-3401, Shimane University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Publication date | 2022-02-24 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Glossa a journal of general linguistics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2397-1835 • E-ISSN: 2397-1835 |
| Publisher | Open Library of the Humanities (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.16995/glossa.5830 |
| OpenAlex | W4210879077 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 33 |
In this study, past participle agreement (PPA) patterns in French and Italian are explained based on recent minimalist notions involving minimal search and labeling. For minimal computation, Agree minimally values a participle and an in-situ object (Minimal Agree). Hence, the participle is spelled out in a default form. If an object is displaced, a participle can choose to Agree with the object’s copy in its SPEC. Since the Agree operation is coupled with labeling, it fully values the participle (Full Agree), resulting in morphological agreement. In many cases, the optionality of PPA results from the participle’s free selection between the two types of Agree. The proposed analysis also deals with cases where PPA is either obligatory or absent. First, a derived subject obligatorily triggers agreement since Full Agree applies to the subject to label the so-called TP node, which also affects the participle. Second, Italian 3rd person clitic objects control agreement obligatorily, which is attributed to their internal structure. Third, agreement with a wh-object is absent in Italian because of criterial freezing. Since Full Agree is part of criterial licensing, a wh-phrase cannot select this option until it reaches its final criterial position unless some form of reconstruction is available
Agreement · Clitic · Library science · Linguistics · Participle · Verb · Computer Science · Linguistics and Discourse Analysis · Natural Language Processing Techniques · Philosophy · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
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Functional Structure in DP and IP
Agreement and Head Movement
The Null Subject Parameter
Movement and Silence
Adverbs and Functional Heads
Agreement and Its Failures
Toward a Modular Theory of Auxiliary Selection
Beyond Explanatory Adequacy
Italian Syntax
Interfaces + Recursion = Language?
Agrobject is not Agrparticiple
Cross-Linguistic Evidence for Number Phrase
Themes in Arabic and Hebrew Syntax
The Domain of Agreement
Past participle agreement in Abruzzese
Mixed agreement, the person feature, and the index/concord distinction
Null Subjects
Multiple Agreement and Case Deletion
Problems of projection
Decomposing Pronouns
Head Movement in Linguistic Theory
Movement and Agreement in Italian Past Participles and Defective Phases
On Partial Agreement and Oblique Case
| Citations per year | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |