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Agreement Suppression Effects and Unification Via Agree
Hamid Ouali
320-327 (complete pdf)
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In this paper it is argued that despite being an apparently disparate range of empirical facts and having received deferent analytical treatments, Subject-verb agreement, Clitic-doubling, and Negative Concord are all forms of agreement. It is shown that just as Subject extraction alters agreement and yields Anti-Agreement Effects in Berber, Object extraction bars the occurrence of clitics, i.e., bars clitic-doubling, and NPI extraction affects Negative Concord. These effects are not coincidental and provide, under proper analysis, further empirical evidence of unification under Agree which, to the extent that it is a computationally efficient operation, holds for any form of agreement. When this operation is inhibited, the suppression effects are uniformly displayed across all the domains within which it applies.



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Proceedings of the 25th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics
edited by Donald Baumer, David Montero, and Michael Scanlon

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ISBN 978-1-57473-415-7 library binding
vii+461 pages
publication date: 2006
published by Cascadilla Proceedings Project, Somerville, MA, USA

Printed edition: $350.00



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