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The syntax and semantics of past participle agreement in Alemannic
Glossa, 2019 This paper investigates agreement on past participles in Highest Alemannic dialects of German. We will first show that participle agreement only occurs in contexts where the participle is adjectival, viz., in stative passives and in resultative perfects,
Gerhard Schaden, Martin Salzmann
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Past participle agreement in French and Italian: A two-Agree analysis
Glossa, 2022 In this study, past participle agreement (PPA) patterns in French and Italian are explained based on recent minimalist notions involving minimal search and labeling.
Akiko Kobayashi
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Phi-Agreement in Past Participle Constructions [PDF]
Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses, 2016 I argue in this paper that agreeing past participles are merged externally in the derivation in V endorsed with a feature [+resultative], whereas non-agreeing past participles are bound to value a feature [+perfective] against the have-auxiliary.
Castillo, Concha
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Past Participle Agreement in Majorcan Catalan: the Relevance of Inner Aspect
Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics, 2017 This paper aims to explain, from a theoretical point of view, the behaviour of past participle agreement with the object in situ (PPAOIS) in Majorcan Catalan.
Sebastià Salvà i Puig
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Past participle agreement in Abruzzese: split auxiliary selection and the null-subject parameter [PDF]
Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 2010 In this paper, we present an analysis of the “person-driven” auxiliary-selection system of one variety of the Upper Southern Italo-Romance dialect Abruzzese, along with an account of the pattern of past participle agreement in this variety, which differs somewhat from what is found in more familiar Romance languages. Our account relies on the technical
Roberta D'Alessandro
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Past participle agreement in French – one or two rules? [PDF]
, 2020 Past participle agreement in French has been taken to be conditioned (among other factors) by movement of the internal argument out of the VP, i.e. as a reflex of movement. However, drawing on data that have been neglected so far in the formal literature on the topic (Lahousse 2011), we show that this characterization is in part misguided: past ...
Georgi, Doreen, Stark, Elisabeth
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The Acquisition of Variable Phenomena: the Case of Past Participle Agreement in Québec French
Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics, 2010 This paper investigates the use of past participle agreement by young preschool children and adults speaking Québec French. The results show that this type of optional agreement in the target grammar is a late acquisition, starting probably in school ...
Mihaela Pîrvulescu
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Perfect Construction in Persian within the Framework of Distributed Morphology [PDF]
نشریه پژوهشهای زبانشناسی, 2021 : Within the non-lexicalist framework of Distributed Morphology (DM), proposed in the early 1990’s by Halle and Marantz, there is no pre-syntactic generative lexicon in which words are derived and all morphosyntactic elements are subject to competition ...
Mazdak Anosheh
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Catalan Journal of Linguistics, 2023 In this paper we discuss a change in the auxiliary selectional pattern of Brazilian Venetan, a heritage Italo-Romance variety spoken in southern Brazil.
Roberta D’Alessandro, Alberto Frasson
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Stative vs. Eventive Participles in an Arbëresh Variety under the Influence of the Italian Language
Languages, 2023 In this paper, I explore the properties and the uses of the past participles in the Arbëresh variety of S. Nicola dell’Alto, an Albanian dialect still spoken in Southern Italy, which has been in contact with Italo-Romance varieties for more than five ...
Giuseppina Turano
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