Unifying subject agreement across clause types in Estonian

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dc.contributor.authorNorris, Mark
dc.date.accessioned2019-06-20T19:12:44Z
dc.date.available2019-06-20T19:12:44Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.descriptionThis is a linguistics article about Estonian (and broadly, other Finno-Ugric languages) written in the framework of generative grammar, and more specifically, a Minimalism/Distributed Morphology hybrid.en_US
dc.description.abstractEstonian negated indicative clauses show no agreement, whereas Estonian negated imperative clauses show agreement twice: once on the main verb and once on the negation word ära. This contrasts with affirmative clauses, where agreement appears only once. I propose a unified syntax for agreement across these clausal types, arguing that the there is one head which bears a φ-feature probe in all Estonian sentences. There is no agreement in negated indicatives because this head has only one suitable vocabulary item in this context: ei. Doubled agreement arises due to a rule of post- syntactic Feature Copying in imperative contexts. I argue that this analysis is superior to an analysis making use of multiple φ-feature probes in the syntax, as such analyses struggle to account for the optionality of doubling in first-person plural contexts. The proposed analysis makes predictions about the kinds of marking possible in negated imperatives, which appear to be borne out in related Uralic languages. This investigation supports a view of the morphosyntax of agreement whereby the syntax and morphology of agreement overlap but do not coincide.en_US
dc.description.peerreviewYesen_US
dc.description.peerreviewnotesDouble-blind peer review by two reviewersen_US
dc.identifier.citationNorris, Mark. 2016. Unifying subject agreement across clause types in Estonian. Finno-Ugric Languages and Linguistics 5(1), 3–37.en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.15763/11244/320356en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11244/320356
dc.languageen_USen_US
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/*
dc.subjectLanguage, Linguistics.en_US
dc.subjectSyntaxen_US
dc.subjectMorphologyen_US
dc.subjectTheoretical linguisticsen_US
dc.subjectGenerative grammaren_US
dc.subjectAgreementen_US
dc.subjectEstonianen_US
dc.subjectNegationen_US
dc.subjectMorphosyntaxen_US
dc.subjectDistributed Morphologyen_US
dc.subjectFinno-Ugricen_US
dc.titleUnifying subject agreement across clause types in Estonianen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
ou.groupCollege of Arts and Sciences::Department of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Linguisticsen_US

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