The morpho-syntactic encoding of discourse-linked topics
An agreement alternation in inversion in North-Eastern Italian varieties
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22130689 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Silvia Schaefer (Goethe University Frankfurt, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Publication date | 2020-09-25 |
| 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 | 10.5334/gjgl.1115 |
| OpenAlex | W3088038041 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 15 |
In this paper, I will argue that some languages dispose over two kinds of expletives: a purely syntactic expletive and a ‘thetic expletive’ enumerated from the lexicon and triggering a thetic interpretation of the sentence. I will present data from two North-Eastern Italian varieties that exhibit a participle agreement alternation in inversion, a phenomenon that has received little attention until now. It will become clear that the information-structural status of the DP and the pragmatic force of the sentence are crucial for the obtainment of agreement in these varieties, ultimately expressing the thetic/categorical divide (Kuroda 1972; Ladusaw 1994; Sasse 1987). I will argue against subject-verb agreement as a mere reflex of a Spec-Head configuration. Instead, Longenbaugh’s (2019) account of past participle agreement in Romance will be adopted for the syntactic analysis of the agreement alternation in a Minimalist vein
Agreement · Causative · Lexicon · Linguistics · Minimalist program · Participle · Phenomenon · Romance languages · Sentence · Syntax · Verb · Computer Science · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Linguistics and Discourse Analysis · Philosophy · Psychology · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
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The Null Subject Parameter
Issues in Italian Syntax
Null Subjects and Clitic Climbing
The Oxford Handbook of Reference
The Representation of (In)Definiteness
Intermediate Adjunction with A-Movement
Movement and Agreement in Italian Past Participles and Defective Phases
Some Interface Properties of the Phase
Subject Islands, Reconstruction, and the Flow of the Computation
The Origin and Content of Expletives
The thetic/categorical distinction revisited
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2024 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |