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A parameter-free underspecification approach to complementizer agreement [PDF]
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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Complement clause C-agreement beyond subject phi-agreement in Ikalanga
, 2019 In this essay, we provide a rich description and analysis of C-agreement and complement clause complementizer (CCC) distributions in Ikalanga which reveals a highly articulated set of relationships between matrix clause properties and the morphology of an agreeing complementizer.
Rose Letsholo, Ken Safir
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Reconciling syntactic and post-syntactic complementizer agreement
, 2017 AbstractFocusing on the microvariation found in complementizer agreement (CA) in Germanic dialects, this chapter seeks to reconcile the syntactic and post-syntactic analyses given in previous treatments. Rather than treating CA as a single construction in need of a single analysis, the CA data is examined here in light of both variation and recent work
Sarah G. Courtney
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Upward-oriented complementizer agreement with subjects and objects in Kipsigis [PDF]
, 2019 In Kipsigis (Nilotic, Kenya), declarative-embedding complementizers can agree with both main-clause subjects (Subj-CA) and main-clause objects (Obj-CA). Subj-CA agrees with the closest super-ordinate subject (even in the context of intervening objects), cannot agree with non-subjects or embedded subjects, and yields an interpretation where the embedded
Diercks, Michael, Rao, Meghana
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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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COLLOQUIUM-Complementizer agreement is clitic doubling: A uniform analysis of intervention effects
, 2021 Based on new data on intervention effects on complementizer agreement in West-Germanic varieties, I show that neither Agree nor PF analyses of complementizer agreement can account for the full range of data. Instead, I argue that complementizer agreement
A.H.J. van Alem
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The structure of complement clauses in Lunda
Studies in African Linguistics, 2006 This paper provides a functional and descriptive study of complement clauses in Lunda, a language spoken in Zambia. While the structure of infinitival complement clauses is analogous to that found in many languages, other types of complement clauses ...
Boniface Kawasha
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A Syntactic Analysis of Chinese Adjectives and Adverbs in Relation to De-Complementizer
, 2023 The present study examines two hypotheses on de-morpheme in relation to Chinese adjectives and adverbs. It answers the question of whether de is treated as a determiner marker or a complementizer.
DIANCHENG LI (14048025)
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KoMiRe PL Experiment 1 (Relative pronoun vs. relative complementizer)
, 2022 Experiment 1 will investigate the influence of two relativizing strategies in Polish (relative pronoun vs. relative complementizer) on the processing of an agreement chain in constructions with relative clauses, specifically when the relativized head is ...
Ewa Trutkowski +2 more
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The syntax of relative clause constructions in Runyankore-Rukiga: Atypological perspective
Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus, 2019 This paper discusses the morphosyntactic properties of relative clause constructions in the Runyankore-Rukiga language cluster (Bantu, JE13/14, Uganda).
Asiimwe, Allen
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