The syntax of semantic agreement in English
| Autor: | Peter W. Smith |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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060201 languages & linguistics
Linguistics and Language media_common.quotation_subject British English 06 humanities and the arts Syntax Asymmetry Language and Linguistics language.human_language Linguistics Agreement Philosophy Noun 0602 languages and literature Subject (grammar) language Mathematics media_common Plural |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Linguistics. 53:823-863 |
| ISSN: | 1469-7742 0022-2267 |
| Popis: | This paper investigates the properties of plural agreement that is triggered by collective nouns in British English. Both singular and plural agreement are able to appear with these collective nouns, which are shown to be morphologically singular but semantically plural. Plural agreement, however, is systematically more restricted than singular agreement, appearing in a subset of the environments where singular agreement is allowed. Restrictions on plural come from the nature of agreement; semantic agreement features can only enter into agreement when the controller of agreement c-commands the target of agreement, whereas morphologically motivated agreement is not subject to the same structural restriction. This asymmetry between the two types of agreement is shown to arise from the proposal that Agree (Chomsky 2000, 2001) is distributed over the syntactic and post-syntactic components (Arregi & Nevins 2012). |
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