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Complementizer Agreement [PDF]
, 2020 This chapter discusses Complementizer Agreement (CA): agreement between the complementizer introducing an embedded finite clause and the subject of that embedded clause. CA is mainly found in Frisian and the nonstandard varieties of Dutch and German.
Marjo Van Koppen +2 more
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Complementizer agreement with coordinated subjects in Polish
Glossa, 2018 This paper examines complementizer and verbal agreement with coordinate subjects in Polish. It shows that while certain patterns are possible, others (logically equally plausible ones) are not. The possible patterns are: (i) Resolved Agreement on both the verb and the complementizer, (ii) mixed agreement (Resolved Agreement on the verb and First ...
Barbara Citko
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Complementizer agreement is not allomorphy: A reply to Weisser (2019)
Glossa, 2020 Weisser (2019) reanalyzes the Breton rannig, Busan Korean interrogative complementizer alternations, and West-Germanic complementizer agreement as allomorphy instead of agreement, and proposes a set of diagnostics to distinguish allomorphy from agreement. While the cases for Breton and Busan Korean are convincing and the results coherent, West-Germanic
Astrid Van Alem
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Complementizer Agreement and the Licensing of DPs: An Account in Terms of Referential Anchoring [PDF]
LanguagesIn this paper, I argue that the phenomenon of complementizer agreement in West Germanic and the distribution of DPs in German can be given a common explanation in terms of an approach in which context values are not freely assigned via an interpretive function operation, as is assumed in standard accounts of formal semantics, but rather, they become ...
Roland Hinterhölzl +1 more
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A parameter-free underspecification approach to complementizer agreement
Revista Linguíʃtica, 2022 The issue of linguistic variation, corresponding to parametric variation in syntax, has not been explored comprehensively in the minimalist approach (but see e.g. ROBERTS, 2019 and references in). Two partially distinct, central views of linguistic variation in this framework are (i) variation comes from the lexicon (the so-called Borer-Chomsky ...
Yushi Sugimoto, Acrisio Pires
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Complementizer Agreement and the Position of the Subject in Jordanian Arabic
Dirasat: Human and Social Sciences, 2023 Objectives: The study aims to investigate the distribution of complementizer agreement in relation to the position of the subject in Jordanian Arabic. Methods: To achieve the objectives of the study, several sentences that manifest complementizer agreement were constructed and presented to 20 native speakers of Jordanian Arabic in written and spoken ...
Alsarayreh, Atef
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Complementizer agreement is clitic doubling
Natural Language and Linguistic TheoryAbstract Complementizer agreement in minority and nonstandard West Germanic languages is well-known and frequently studied, but there is little agreement on its analysis. In this paper, I add to this debate by presenting novel and underdiscussed data from Frisian and Limburgian on intervention effects: what happens to complementizer agreement
Astrid Van Alem
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Complementizer Agreement in den Dialekten Österreichs
Wiener Linguistische Gazette, 2021 This paper investigates Complementizer Agreement (CA) in the dialects of Austria from a variationist perspective. Data are based on the corpus of the project »Variation and change of dialect varieties in Austria (in real and apparent time)«. Altogether, dialectal translations of 163 participants (recruited from two age-groups) from 40 locations are ...
Vergeiner, Philip C., Bülow, Lars
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Variation and dynamics of “complementizer agreement” in German
Linguistic Variation, 2020 Abstract To date, there has been limited empirical research on complementizer agreement (CA). We investigate CA drawing on a corpus of 144 speakers from 13 locations across Austria that was elicited through computer supported language production experiments and recorded in conversations.
Fingerhuth, Matthias, Lenz, Alexandra N.
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Politics and Governance, 2023 Intense pressure for international solutions and weak support for multilateral cooperation have led the EU to increasingly rely on its strongest foreign policy tool in the pursuit of migration policy goals: preferential trade agreements (PTAs). Starting from the fragmentary architecture of the migration regime complex we examine how the relevant ...
Hoffmeyer, Paula +2 more
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