Common Contracts
1 similar Eccentric Agreement contracts
Eccentric agreement can be monstrousEccentric Agreement • February 18th, 2016
Béjar and Rezac (2009) develop an elegant proposal which accounts for the syntax of so-called agreement displacement sensitive to person hierarchies, i.e. patterns of agreement where either the subject or the object may control agreement in the same morphological position depending on their relative specification for person and grammatical function (also called eccentric agreement, context-sensitive agreement, and dependent agreement). E.g. in Basque the controller for person agreement alternates between the internal argument (IA) and the external argument (EA) depending on their relative φ-feature specification. In brief, the essence of their Cyclic Agree mechanism boils down to the following ingredients: (i) The π- probe is placed between the EA and the IA on v°, (ii) The π-probe in a given language is sensitive to a particular specification of the goal in terms of [person], [participant], and [speaker], and (iii) The agreement displacement pattern follows from a bottom-up derivation
