Constraint-driven Agree

Authors

  • Elango Kumaran

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3765/plsa.v7i1.5282

Keywords:

Agree, intervention, long distance agreement, PCC, Harmonic Grammar

Abstract

Recent work (e.g. Deal 2015, Keine 2020) argues that the lexical specification of a probe has two components: (i) specification for constraints favoring Agree with prominent features on a person or discourse hierarchy and (ii) specification for constraints disfavoring Agree across particular features. In this paper, I propose that these are weighted, violable constraints (building on e.g. Murphy 2018, Georgi 2019). I provide a unified account of cross-clausal long-distance agreement, phi-feature hierarchy effects in multiargument agreement systems, dative intervention, and PCC effects.

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Published

2022-05-05

Issue

Vol. 7 No. 1 (2022): Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America

Section

Articles

License

Published by the LSA with permission of the author(s) under a CC BY 4.0 license.

How to Cite

Kumaran, Elango. 2022. “Constraint-Driven Agree”. Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America 7 (1): 5282. https://doi.org/10.3765/plsa.v7i1.5282.