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Probe relaxation and direct/inverse, portmanteau, and active/stative agreement in GuaraniResearch Paper • August 7th, 2024
An important idea, and a recurring theme across recent work that argues that Agree is a complex and highly structured mechanism, is that the search behavior of an Agree probe may change over the course of the derivation. Some have argued that probes become more picky over the course of the derivation (e.g. dynamic interaction (Deal 2024)), while others have argued that probes become less picky (e.g. probe im- poverishment (Béjar 2003) and chameleon probes (Georgi 2010)). In this paper, based on evidence from Paraguayan Guaraní (henceforth, Guarani), I argue in favor of the idea that probes become less picky over the course of the derivation. I extend the origi- nal proposal of probe impoverishment from Béjar (2003) by incorporating a tool I refer to as probe relaxation into the interaction and satisfaction model of Agree (Deal 2015, Deal 2024). Probe relaxation allows probes to become less picky upon failed first-cycle Agree and creates derivational natural classes of three agreement
