The multi-valuation agreement hierarchy
- This paper investigates multi-valuation, i.e. cases where one probe agrees with multiple goals thus obtaining multiple feature values. Focusing on number agreement, I look at the cross-linguistic patterns on multi-valued Ns in the nominal Right Node Raising construction (Nominal RNR) reported in Belyaev et al. (2015); Harizanov & Gribanova (2015); Shen (2016) as well as multi-valued Ts in TP RNR construction reported in Yatabe (2003); Grosz (2009; 2015); Kluck (2009). I show that three types of languages are attested: languages like Serbo-Croatian that show singular marking on both multi-valued Ns and Ts, languages like Russian that show plural marking on both multi-valued Ns and Ts, and languages like English that show singular marking on multi-valued Ns and plural marking on multi-valued Ts. No language is attested that shows plural marking on multi-valued Ns and singular marking on multi-valued Ts. I use this 3/4 pattern to argue that multi-valuation shows the effect of the Agreement Hierarchy discussed by Corbett (1979; 2006) among others.
Author: | Zheng Shen |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-532379 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.585 |
ISSN: | 2397-1835 |
Parent Title (German): | Glossa: a journal of general linguistics |
Publisher: | Ubiquity Press |
Place of publication: | London |
Document Type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Date of Publication (online): | 2019/05/03 |
Date of first Publication: | 2019/05/03 |
Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
Release Date: | 2020/04/11 |
Tag: | multi-dominance; multi-valuation; nominal concord; number agreement; right node raising |
Volume: | 4 |
Issue: | 46 |
Page Number: | 29 |
First Page: | 1 |
Last Page: | 29 |
HeBIS-PPN: | 463904273 |
Institutes: | Neuere Philologien / Neuere Philologien |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 4 Sprache / 40 Sprache / 400 Sprache |
4 Sprache / 41 Linguistik / 410 Linguistik | |
Sammlungen: | Universitätspublikationen |
Licence (German): | Creative Commons - Namensnennung 4.0 |