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Topicality and object–past participle agreement in Friulian
2022AbstractChapter 12 argues that object–-past participle agreement in Friulian is sensitive to the discourse-pragmatic status of the direct object as given topic or aboutness-shift topic. It occurs in transitive clauses with the in-situ direct object independently of the presence of a resumptive object clitic within the verbal domain.
Simone De Cia
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Movement and Agreement in Italian Past Participles and Defective Phases
Linguistic Inquiry, 2008In this article, we propose a phase-based alternative to Kayne’s (1989) analysis of past participle agreement in Italian. This analysis captures the principal facts without making reference to specifier-head agreement. Instead, the possibility of overt past participle agreement is determined by the Phase Impenetrability Condition and is linked to the ...
Roberta D'Alessandro
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Semantic effects of agreement: The case of French past participle agreement
Probus, 1998Kayne's (1989) seminal paper on participle agreement in Italian and French has spurred numerous studies on the syntactic conditions governing agreement relations. The focus of this paper is on the semantic aspects of this phenomenon. Within the framework of Chomsky’s Minimalist Program, an analysis of French participle agreement is developed, that ...
Viviane Deprez
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Past Participle Agreement in French: Agreement = Case
1987This paper argues that participle agreement in French is not an instantiation of agreement under predication. The idea that past participle agreement operates from the trace of the NP it governs and that past participle agreement phenomena are related to Case in several ways is explored.
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Facets of Romance past participle agreement
1989Abstract It is usual to say that in (2) and (3), the past participle agrees with the clitic or Wh-phrase, much as the auxiliary ‘a’ in (1)-(3) is said to agree with the subject NP ‘Paul’. We shall argue, however, that this parallelism is only partially valid and that there is a significant distinction to be drawn between the two types of
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The Acquisition of Past Participle Agreement in Québec French L1
Language Acquisition, 2008Much developmental work has been devoted to the acquisition of object clitics in French. There is a consensus that in early grammar, children omit object clitics in contexts where an adult would not. Several analyses have been put forth, among which, one proposing a close link between the omission of object clitics and the presence of past participle ...
Mihaela Pirvulescu
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(Past)Participle agreement: a case study. Updated version
, 2017 The chapter offers an overview of the analysis of past participle agreement, a central phenomenon in Romance, addressed here in a comparative perspective, with special reference to Italian and French. The theoretical issues raised by the phenomenon are at the core of the chapter, from the influential account first developed by Kayne (1989) in terms of ...
BELLETTI, ADRIANA, Adriana Belletti
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A few remarks on past participle agreement
Linguistics and Philosophy, 1987Denis Bouchard
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2020
In this book, the traditional definition of ‘grammaticalization’ is challenged in the light of current developments in grammar theory. The main innovation of this approach is the focus on the feature composition of lexical items. From this perspective, the loss of past participle agreement in Catalan is analyzed on the basis of newly collected data as ...
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In this book, the traditional definition of ‘grammaticalization’ is challenged in the light of current developments in grammar theory. The main innovation of this approach is the focus on the feature composition of lexical items. From this perspective, the loss of past participle agreement in Catalan is analyzed on the basis of newly collected data as ...
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