A Cyclic Agree account of the Romance faire-infinitive causative
New evidence from Catalan
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4238345 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Anna Pineda (0000-0002-2810-9302, Universitat de Barcelona), Michelle Sheehan (0000-0002-8072-4847, Newcastle University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 183-222 |
| Publication date | 2023-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Syntax (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1368-0005 • E-ISSN: 1467-9612 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/synt.12247 |
| OpenAlex | W4317396172 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 62 |
Catalan, like Italian and French, displays (notwithstanding certain complications) a pattern in causatives under facere such that the causee can be realized as dative only where its complement is "transitive." We propose an analysis of this pattern based on Cyclic Agree. On our approach, transitivity-sensitive dative arises where a probe agrees with a DP that requires case licensing, having previously probed (potentially defectively) a closer XP of any kind. Downward Cyclic Agree is possible, in this context, because neither goal c-commands the other, which makes them both visible to a single higher probe. This model captures the basic transitivity-sensitive pattern and the Strict Person-Case Constraint effects observed in this domain as well as the fact that dative is triggered not only by DPs requiring structural/dependent case but also by "defective interveners" (PPs, CPs, case-marked DPs/clitics). We show that this Agree-based account has potential advantages over competing dependent-case approaches
Catalan · Combinatorics · Complement (music · Constraint (computer-aided design · Context (archaeology · Dative case · Geometry · Infinitive · Linguistics · Romance languages · Transitive relation · Verb · Chemistry · Computer Science · History · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Mathematics · Philosophy · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation · Artificial Intelligence
Case
The Dependencies of Objects
Uttering Trees
Agreement and Head Movement
On Phases
Person Licensing and the Derivation of PCC Effects
Italian Syntax
French Ce as a Clausal Determiner
Icelandic Dative Intervention
Clausal complementation
Causatives and Transitivity
From dative to accusative. An ongoing syntactic change in Romance
The Development of Exceptional Case Marking in Romance with a Particular Focus on French
Phase Extension Contours of a theory of the role of head movement in phrasal extraction
Explorer la structure interne des constructions causatives du français
Icelandic case-marked CP
Case in Sakha
The syntax of eccentric agreement
The representation of third person and its consequences for person-case effects
Two modalities of case assignment
Masked Inversion in French
The Role of Argument Structure in Grammar
Variability in the Case Patterns of Causative Formation in Romance and Its Implications
Linear Asymmetries and the LCA
Double-Object Constructions in Romance
Some Implications of a Copy Theory of Labeling
Two Components of Long-Distance Extraction
Morphological and Abstract Case
Causation, Obligation, and Argument Structure
Feature Gluttony
Cyclic Agree
Phase Edge and Extraction
(Non-)intervention in A-movement
Deriving Greenberg's Universal 20 and Its Exceptions
Quantificational Binding Does Not Require C-Command
Syntax and Syncretisms of the Person Case Constraint
Agreement and movement in Icelandic raising constructions
Defects of Defective Intervention
Precede-and-command revisited
Case in Tiers
Person and Number in Pronouns
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| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |