Closest Conjunct Agreement

Nevins, Andrew; Weisser, Philipp

doi:10.1146/annurev-linguistics-011718-012708

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“…The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the growing body of literature on the patterns of agreement with coordinated subjects (see, among others, Kallas 1974;Corbett 1983;1991;Bošković 2009;Ruda 2011;Willim 2012;Franks & Willer-Gold 2014;Marušič, Nevins & Badecker 2015;Nevins & Weisser 2018). However, instead of focusing on verbal agreement with such subjects, I focus on complementizer agreement and its interaction with verbal agreement, which, by comparison, has received less attention in the literature (see, however, Van Koppen 2007;Haegeman & Van Koppen 2012;Murphy & Puškar 2018).…”

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Complementizer agreement with coordinated subjects in Polish

Citko

2018

Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics

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This paper examines complementizer and verbal agreement with coordinate subjects in Polish. It shows that while certain patterns are possible, others (logically equally plausible ones) are not. The possible patterns are: (i) Resolved Agreement on both the verb and the complementizer, (ii) mixed agreement (Resolved Agreement on the verb and First Conjunct Agreement on the complementizer, and (iii) sandwiched agreement (First Conjunct Agreement on the complementizer and Last Conjunct Agreement on the verb). The differences between Resolved Agreement and Single Conjunct Agreement are attributed to two distinct ways Agree can operate; either as a sequence of Singular Agree operations, or as one instance of Multiple Agree, with Multiple Agree yielding Resolved Agreement and Singular Agree requiring feature conflict resolution at PF.

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Section: Puzzlementioning

confidence: 99%

Complementizer agreement with coordinated subjects in Polish

Citko

2018

Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics

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“…In spoken language, when a coordination structure shows a morphological mismatch, one strategy of agreement that is sometimes observed is Closest Conjunct Agreement (Nevins & Weisser 2018). In such patterns, the verb simply agrees with the coordinated DP that is structurally closest.…”

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Disjunctive discourse referents in French Sign Language

Kuhn

2022

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Disjoined noun phrases, like indefinites, may introduce indeterminate discourse referents. Disjunction provides more flexibility in some respects than indefinites, though, as the two disjuncts may bear different morphological features, and a disjunctive discourse referent may have a split antecedent. Sign language, too, has been shown to bear on arguments pertaining to discourse anaphora. Notably, discourse referents may be established at locations in the signing space (loci), closely paralleling the use of variables in dynamic semantics. Here, we compare several theories of disjunctive anaphora and of space in sign language with new data from French Sign Language (LSF). We argue that loci must be mediated by a featural layer that iconically preserves mereological properties.

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“…The difference between default agreement and resolution rules has been debated (cf. Nevins and Weisser, 2019), since in languages with three genders, default agreement is usually neuter while resolution is usually masculine. We use the term resolution rule in this article referring to masculine agreement when there is a conflict of features.…”

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Closest conjunct agreement with attributive adjectives

Abeillé

2021

French Language Studies

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Contrary to most French grammars claiming that French only allows masculine agreement when mixed-gender nouns are conjoined, we show that closest conjunct agreement (CCA) does exist in contemporary French, as in other Romance languages, and is the preferred strategy for prenominal adjectives. Using data from a large corpus (FrWac) and an acceptability rating experiment, we show that (feminine) CCA is well accepted in contemporary French, and should be distinguished from attraction errors, despite the norm prescribing masculine agreement. We also show the role of the adjective position, i.e. prenominal or post-nominal, and humanness. CCA is the preferred strategy for prenominal adjectives, and non-human nouns favour CCA for post-nominal adjectives. Assuming a hierarchical structure for coordination, the closest noun is the highest in A-N order, whereas it is the lowest in N-A order. Thus CCA in prenominal position may be favoured by a shorter structural distance. One can also see CCA with a prenominal adjective as ‘early’ agreement. Regarding humanness, grammatical gender is interpreted as social gender with human nouns, and a masculine plural can refer to a mixed group. This ‘gender neutral’ plural may favour masculine agreement for human nouns, or the prescriptive norm is more influential for human nouns.

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Closest Conjunct Agreement

Cited by 23 publications

References 48 publications

Complementizer agreement with coordinated subjects in Polish

Complementizer agreement with coordinated subjects in Polish

Disjunctive discourse referents in French Sign Language

Closest conjunct agreement with attributive adjectives

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