Can agreement with the linearly closest conjunct be derived in syntax proper?

Franc Marušič (Author), Jana Willer-Gold (Author), Boban Arsenijević (Author), Andrew Nevins (Author)

Abstract

The recent literature on South Slavic conjunct agreement can be roughly divided into two camps: those trying to model the cases of agreement with linearly closest conjunct, as in the Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian (BCS) example in (1) (taken from Bošković 2009), within syntax (Bošković 2009, Puškar & Murphy 2015 a.o.) and those claiming this agreement is a result of a postsyntactic operation that occurs after linearization and hence is sensitive to the linear distance between two syntactic elements (among these, Bhatt & Walkow 2013, Marušič et al 2015). We present a strong argument against strictly syntactic theories of conjunct agreement that leverages experimental work on BCS conjunct agreement and builds on data in Aljović & Begović (2015).

Keywords

verb agreement;conjunct agreement;experimental syntax;Slovenian;

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Language:	English
Year of publishing:	2015
Typology:	1.12 - Published Scientific Conference Contribution Abstract
Organization:	UNG - University of Nova Gorica
UDC:	81
COBISS:	4169723
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URN:	URN:SI:UNG
Type (COBISS):	Not categorized
Pages:	1 str.
ID:	9130437