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Continuing the investigation of grammatical relations in Palauan, this chapter focuses on direct objects, which exhibit an unusual pattern of accusative case morphology. I begin by demonstrating that the aspectual properties of transitive verbs correlate with differences in how their direct object DPs are marked, one of which is a dependent-marking differential object marking pattern, and the other is a head-marking object agreement pattern. I present a wealth of evidence from raising-to-object constructions, morphological causatives, transitive stative predicates, and passives that—despite the aspectual split and difference between the case-marking patterns—transitive predicates are structurally identical. I develop an analysis of direct object DP licensing and the syntactic composition of aspect in the verbal complex, concluding that there are different “flavors” of transitive v that are specified for different aspect features. I propose that direct objects are uniformly licensed via an Agree relation instantiated by transitive v and present evidence for this view with data involving left-conjunct agreement. The conclusions drawn in this chapter serve to augment our knowledge of the features of argument structure, Case licensing, aspect, and object agreement in Palauan and cross-linguistically. |
