Past Participle Agreement Revisited1 February 26, 2019Past Participle Agreement • February 26th, 2019
Past participle agreement (PPA) in the Romance languages is well known for its correlation with movement. The contrast in (1), from French, is typical of the pattern: the participle shows agree- ment with the feminine plural object only if it has undergone leftward movement.
Past Participle Agreement Revisited1 September 10, 2018Past Participle Agreement • September 10th, 2018
PAST PARTICIPLE AGREEMENT IN MAJORCAN CATALAN: THE RELEVANCE OF INNER ASPECTPast Participle Agreement • October 8th, 2018
Majorcan Catalan (at least for some speakers, especially the elder ones) admits, optionally, past participle agreement with the object in situ (PPAOIS) (1). However, a fact not observed until now is that PPAOIS is not always felicitous: it is accepted in telic dynamic events, but is very odd in stative situations and in some atelic dynamic constructions, but not in all of them.
