Unagreement and how morphology sees syntax

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  • dc.contributor.author Alsina i Keith, Àlex
  • dc.date.accessioned 2025-05-30T05:50:05Z
  • dc.date.available 2025-05-30T05:50:05Z
  • dc.date.issued 2024
  • dc.description.abstract The phenomenon of unagreement, found in Spanish, Catalan, and Greek, among other languages, poses four theoretical problems: 1) how to account for an apparent mismatch between trigger and target in an agreement relation; 2) how to account for the fact that not all languages have this phenomenon; 3) how to account for variation in the NPs that trigger unagreement within a given language and across languages; 4) how to account for the correlation between the presence or absence of unagreement and the type of adnominal pronoun construction (APC) allowed in the language. The analysis assumes a lexicalist unencapsulated view of the relationship between syntax and inflectional morphology, which implies that agreement is a strictly morphological phenomenon. The fundamental idea is that some determiners in some languages do not specify person information. This implies that a phrase headed by such a determiner is compatible with any person feature.
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  • dc.identifier.citation Alsina A. Unagreement and how morphology sees syntax. In: Butt M, Findlay JY, Toivonen I, editors. Proceedings of the 29th International Lexical-Functional Grammar Conference (LFG24); 2024 Aug 21-3; Accra, Ghana. [unknow]: LFG; 2024. p. 24-44.
  • dc.identifier.issn 1098-6782
  • dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/70567
  • dc.language.iso eng
  • dc.publisher Lexical-Functional Grammar
  • dc.relation.ispartof Butt M, Findlay JY, Toivonen I, editors. Proceedings of the 29th International Lexical-Functional Grammar Conference (LFG24); 2024 Aug 21-3; Accra, Ghana. [unknow]: LFG; 2024.
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  • dc.rights.uri http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
  • dc.subject.keyword Unagreement
  • dc.subject.keyword Morphology
  • dc.subject.keyword Syntax
  • dc.title Unagreement and how morphology sees syntax
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