Catalan intransitive verbs and argument realization

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  • dc.contributor.author Alsina i Keith, Àlex
  • dc.contributor.author Yang, Fengrong
  • dc.date.accessioned 2021-09-07T07:03:11Z
  • dc.date.available 2021-09-07T07:03:11Z
  • dc.date.issued 2018
  • dc.description Comunicació presentada al LFG’18 Conference celebrat del 17 a 19 de juliol de 2018 a Viena, Austria.
  • dc.description.abstract The goal of this paper is to analyze the behavior of the single direct argument of intransitive verbs in Catalan, including its encoding as a grammatical function, verbal agreement, case assignment, and expression by means of clitics. Our main claim is that the single direct argument of a clause can be a nominative object. We show that the direct argument of intransitive verbs (whether unaccusative or unergative) alternates between subject and object. The proposed analysis diverges from standard versions of LFG, as it allows an external argument to map onto an object and allows a clause to lack a subject, in violation of the Subject Condition. We propose a new mapping theory in which case assignment plays a major role and account for the agreement facts by assuming a set of agreement features of the clause (AGR) that are identified with a grammatical function (GF), not necessarily the subject, by general constraints.
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  • dc.identifier.citation Alsina A, Yang F. Catalan intransitive verbs and argument realization. In: Butt M, King TH (Eds.). Proceedings of the LFG’18 Conference; 2018 Jul 17-19; Vienna, Austria. Stanford: CSLI Publications; 2018. p. 46-66.
  • dc.identifier.issn 1098-6782
  • dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/48398
  • dc.language.iso eng
  • dc.publisher CSLI Publications
  • dc.rights The papers are published under a CC-BY license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
  • dc.rights.accessRights info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
  • dc.rights.uri https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
  • dc.subject.keyword Intransitive verbs
  • dc.subject.keyword Argument realization
  • dc.subject.keyword Mapping theory
  • dc.subject.keyword Verb agreement
  • dc.title Catalan intransitive verbs and argument realization
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  • dc.type.version info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion

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