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Estonian and Finnish Show That Hybrid Agreement Is Structural
Mark Norris
630-637 (complete paper or proceedings contents)

Abstract

In this squib, Norris describes a pattern of hybrid agreement in number that is found in Estonian and Finnish numeral-noun constructions (NNCs). Norris argues that this empirical pattern cannot be straightforwardly analyzed without an appeal to functional structure. This is in part a response to Bruening (2020), who argues against the DP hypothesis by presenting NP-only analyses of three prominent generalizations previously argued to require DP (hybrid agreement in Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian among them). Hybrid agreement in Estonian/Finnish differs from hybrid agreement in Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian in key ways that cause problems for Bruening's (2020) lexical analysis. Norris argues instead for a structural analysis of hybrid agreement (in Estonian/Finnish). In so doing, he argues that it is an argument in favor of the DP hypothesis, i.e., the necessity of nominals headed by something other than N.

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Proceedings of the 39th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics
edited by Robert Autry, Gabriela de la Cruz, Luis A. Irizarry Figueroa, Kristina Mihajlovic, Tianyi Ni, Ryan Smith, and Heidi Harley
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