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Past Participle-Object Agreement and Topicalization: A Parallel Between Friulian and Old ItalianApril 27th, 2022
In the rise and fall of the active-inactive alignment across Romance (La Fauci 1988; Ledgeway 2012), participle-object agreement developed from an alignment-driven pattern, differentiating O and So from A and SA, into a partially discourse-driven pattern (Bentley 2006), where, alongside So, only a subclass of topical objects trigger agreement, specifically, those in CLLD. The paper draws a parallel between Friulian and Old Italian, identifying a stage in which the past participle agrees with topical in-situ postverbal direct objects (De Cia, Ciconte, Bentley forthc.).
