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ECCENTRIC AGREEMENT AND MULTIPLE CASE-CHECKING*Eccentric Agreement • May 5th, 2020
Let us consider now how the structure suggested by the distribution of agreement morphology meshes with the analysis of Chukchi syntax (case) presented in section 4.1. To begin with, the role of C was not considered in that section. The fact that both C-agreement and T-agreement reflect the features of the subject in intransitive clauses can be implemented by adding a CP to the top of the tree in (9) and stipulating that C must check features with the closest argument. This will force an intransitive subject to raise to T and then on to C, checking agreement features twice. For the transitive derivation we have proposed, both subject and object check case at T—tucking in leaves the subject as the highest argument and it will then be attracted by C. From
