Movement and agreement in Italian past participles and spell-out domains Roberta D’Alessandro (rd325@cam.ac.uk) & Ian Roberts (igr20@cam.ac.uk) University of CambridgeMovement and Agreement • June 1st, 2007
Contract Type FiledJune 1st, 2007In Standard Italian past-participle (pp-) agreement is found with promoted internal arguments (passives, unaccusatives, medio-passive si), reflexive constructions, and with preposed direct object clitics (see (1)). Kayne (1989) proposed that the agreement was triggered by moving the internal argument through SpecAgrOP. This triggers Spec-head agreement between the DP and AgrO (see(2)). Kayne accounts for three things: