Discontinuous first person agreement in Semitic and postsyntactic modularityDiscontinuous First Person Agreement • January 20th, 2023
The derivation of the first person dual prefix conjugation is similar, except prefix conjugation Metathesis ((17)) applies in response to the templatic requirement that prefix conjugation verbs have prefixes: the T-initiality constraint in (18). After first dual Fission has applied, prefix conjuga- tion Metathesis displaces the leftmost fissioned terminal to the left edge of the maximal projection of T0, generating a prefix. Example (38), along with the vocabulary entries in (37), shows how all these pieces fit together to derive discontiguous first person dual agreement in Omani Mehri:
