| description |
Jan-Wouter Zwart. 2006. Local agreement. In Cedric Boeckx, ed.,
Agreement systems. Amsterdam/ Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company. Pp. 317-339. Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 92. |
| type | Reviewed book chapter. |
| ID | 2006b | 118 | DOI | July 19, 2004 |
| origin | Sollicited contribution to a volume on (minimalist approaches to) agreement conceived by Cedric Boeckx and published by Benjamins. I got the idea for this paper while in Geneva in June 2002, and presented it first in Utrecht in October 2002 and then in Durham at CGSW 18, September 2003. |
| keywords | agreement; sisterhood; subject-verb agreement; multiple agreement; dependency |
| summary | The article proposes to describe agreement as a relation between sisters, i.e. as a function of the structure building operation Merge. Subject-verb agreement, then, is not mediated by a functional head in a specifier-head configuration, or triggered by a probe-goal mechanism, but the expression of a direct dependency relation between the subject and its sister. Supporting evidence is found in cases where agreement has multiple controllers, multiple targets, or finds alternative realizations within the predicate. |
| related |
full text Presentations: Barcelona, 01/2007; Leiden; 04/2005; CGSW 09/2003; Utrecht 10/2002 Class notes: SynFest, 06/2004 Abstracts: CGSW 18, 2003 Publications: Agreement and remnant movement |
