Complementizer agreement in Bavarian: feature inheritance or feature insertion?Complementizer Agreement • November 29th, 2019
• Well-known fact: in many non-standard varieties of Germanic, we can observe instances of multiple agreement where the subject’s ϕ-features ([person], [number] etc.) are reflected not only on the verb, but also on C0 (or some head of a split-C structure):1
Complementizer Agreement and the relation between C° and T°1Complementizer Agreement • January 12th, 2011
A substantial set of West-Germanic dialects displays Complementizer Agreement, henceforth CA (cf. among others Bayer 1984; Haegeman 1992; Zwart 1993, 1997; Law 1991; Carstens 2003). Consider an example of this phenomenon in (1) (from Barbiers et al. 2005).
Complementizer AgreementComplementizer Agreement • July 25th, 2019
This chapter deals with a unique phenomenon found in a subset of the Germanic Languages: Complementizer Agreement (henceforth CA).1,2 CA is attested in (dialects of) Frisian and in a subset of the Dutch and the German dialects. It is, as far as I know, not found in (dialects of) English or the North Germanic languages.3 There is a large descriptive literature on CA in the continental West-Germanic dialects (see Barbiers et al. (2005, 2006), Weiß (2005), van Koppen 2017 for an elaborate list of references).
Complementizer Agreement in Mansfeld GermanComplementizer Agreement • April 16th, 2020
A number of West Germanic dialects exhibit a phenomenon called COMPLEMENTIZER AGREEMENT. Complementizer agreement refers to the property that the shape of subordinating conjunctions (and other elements introducing subordinate clauses) varies, depending on the φ-features of the subject (Koppen 2017, Weiß 2005). The data in
Complementizer Agreement in Tunisian ArabicComplementizer Agreement • May 20th, 2021
Complementizer Agreement = Clitic Doubling?Complementizer Agreement • January 3rd, 2022
Various approaches to complementizer agreement (CA), mostly on the basis of Germanic, argue that CA is the result of clitic doubling (CD), (e.g., Van Craenenbroeck & Van Koppen 2008, van Alem 2020), as one view to CD involves a purely Agree-based approach, in which clitic results from Agree with a functional head (e.g., Sportiche 1996, Angelopoulos 2019).
Complementizer Agreement in Tunisian Arabic is Subject Clitic DoublingComplementizer Agreement • March 25th, 2022
This analysis captures the difference between Tunisian and the other varieties for which CA is argued to be true agreement.
How to void a phase Anti-intervention effects with clitic doubling in Dutch dialectsComplementizer Agreement • January 13th, 2023
Revisiting complementizer agreementComplementizer Agreement • March 20th, 2015
