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Complementizer Agreement and the Position of the Subject in Jordanian Arabic [PDF]

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 ...
Atef Alsarayreh
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Complementizer Agreement Is Clitic Doubling

Natural Language and Linguistic Theory
Abstract 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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Indirect Agree in Lubukusu Complementizer Agreement

Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 2013
This paper introduces a new complementizer agreement relation to the theoretical literature from Lubukusu (Bantu, Kenya), in which a declarative-embedding complementizer agrees in an upward orientation with the subject of its selecting clause.
Michael Diercks
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Complementizer Agreement [PDF]

, 2017
Complementizers agree in phi-features with the embedded subject in dialects of German and Dutch, in Tense with the embedded clause in Irish and in phi-features with the matrix subject in certain African languages. These complementizer agreement phenomena
Marjo van Koppen
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Fin0 And Force0, and Complementizer Agreement in Arabic: A Cross–Dialectal Perspective

Lingua, 2023
Aziz jaber, Marwan Jarrah, Phil Branigan
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Chapter 10. Complementizer Agreement

Linguistik Aktuell, 2010
Frisian belongs to the set of Germanic languages that show agreement between the complementizer and the subject, albeit in a very modest way. This paper compares two approaches to the nature of agreeing complementizers: a clitic analysis and an inflection analysis. Arguments are presented for the latter.
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On the Licensing of Complementizer Agreement With Nominals in the Left Periphery

Journal of Linguistics
Abstract This research article examines the licensing of complementizer agreement with nominals (namely thematic subjects and objects) in the left periphery, focusing on data from Jordanian Arabic (JA). It demonstrates that obligatory complementizer agreement with A-bar elements is evident in JA grammar due to the effects of the Agree
Basem Ibrahim Malawi Al‐Raba'A, Marwan Jarrah   +1 more
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Rethinking Complementizer Agreement: Agree With a Case-Checked Goal

Linguistic Inquiry, 2003
Agree(X, Subj) accounts for all agreement in West Germanic: complementizer agreement (CA) results from an Agree relation between uninterpretable φ-features of Fin0 (Rizzi 1997) and φ-features of the subject; subject-verb agreement (SA) spells out uninterpretable φ-features of T0 on V0 raised to T0, even in OV clauses (Haegeman 2000). Although DPs need
Vicki Carstens
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Some Theoretical Consequences of Dutch Complementizer Agreement

Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, 1986
Proceedings of the Twelfth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1986), pp.
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Diachronic Clues to Pro-Drop and Complementizer Agreement in Bavarian

Linguistik Aktuell, 2004
Eric Fuss
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