Aleut shows a remarkable alternation in its case and agreement patterns: roughly put, one pattern appears when a non-subject argument is syntactically unexpressed in a predicate, and the other pattern appears otherwise. This paper is devoted to an attempt to provide a coherent analysis for this alternation: the missing argument is analyzed as a pro which must move into a local relation with the highest T; in this position, it triggers additional agreement on the verb, and blocks normal case assignment to the subject (which then gets a different case). This movement is analogous to that of (potentially long) clitic movement, and its effects on the case and agreement patterns is shown to be similar to the wh-agreement pattern in Chamorro.
2024. The Latin passive morpheme /-r/ and its morphosyntactic similarity with Romance si. In Rich Descriptions and Simple Explanations in Morphosyntax and Language Acquisition, ► pp. 334 ff.
Meykadeh, Simin, Arsalan Golfam, Seyed Amir Hossein Batouli & Werner Sommer
2024. The neural basis of Number and Person phi-features processing: An fMRI study in highly proficient bilinguals. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 27:3 ► pp. 306 ff.
Keine, Stefan & Bhamati Dash
2023. Movement and cyclic Agree. Natural Language & Linguistic Theory 41:2 ► pp. 679 ff.
Yuan, Michelle & Matthew Tyler
2023. Agreement and the Realization of Arguments. In The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Morphology, ► pp. 1 ff.
Zeijlstra, Hedde
2022. Negation and Negative Dependencies,
Yuan, Michelle
2021. Diagnosing Object Agreement vs. Clitic Doubling: An Inuit Case Study. Linguistic Inquiry 52:1 ► pp. 153 ff.
Bjorkman, Bronwyn M. & Hedde Zeijlstra
2019. Checking Up on (ϕ-)Agree. Linguistic Inquiry 50:3 ► pp. 527 ff.
Hanink, Emily A.
2018. Super light-headed relatives, missing prepositions, and span-conditioned allomorphy in German. The Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics 21:2 ► pp. 247 ff.
2011. Multiple agree with clitics: person complementarity vs. omnivorous number. Natural Language & Linguistic Theory 29:4 ► pp. 939 ff.
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