The Role of Agreement in Non-Finite Predication
1st Edition
Published on 2. November 2005
XVI, 222 pages
978-90-272-8531-7 (ISBN)
Description
This comparative syntactic study claims that agreement is the most central functional category responsible for licensing predication in finite, non-finite and small clauses alike. Intriguing syntactic phenomena like Icelandic infinitival predicates taking non-nominative (quirky) subjects; psych-impersonal and modal predicates in Italian, Hungarian and Russian; meteorological predicates, existential clauses, post-verbal and null subjects in the so-called null-subject VSO languages can all be better analyzed through a concept of predication that is closely related to AGRP, manifesting subject-verb agreement. The overt agreement marking in Hungarian and Portuguese infinitival clauses further strengthens this view. Obviation and control subjunctive clauses in the Balkan languages, Welsh finite and non-finite infinitival clauses as well as case-marked secondary predicates in Icelandic, Slovak, Hungarian, Russian and Finnish also lend support to an analysis where the [+pred] feature is checked in AGRP.
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Content
- The Role of Agreement in Non-Finite Predication
- Editorial page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Table of contents
- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
- LIST OF CASES IN HUNGARIAN
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- FOREWORD
- 1.FINITENESS AND MINIMALIST THEORY
- 1.1 Basic notions and principles
- 1.2 Predication relation
- 1.3 The notion of finiteness
- 1.3.1 The infinitive / subjunctive correlation
- 1.3.2 Tense and agreement in non-finite clauses
- 2. TWO THEORIES OF PREDICATION WITHOUT AGRP
- 2.1 From Minimalist Theory to Derivation By Phase
- 2.1.1 The decline of AGRP
- 2.1.2 Strong and weak phases
- 2.2 Thematic feature movement
- 3. AGR-BASED THEORIES OF GRAMMAR
- 3.1 A three-level case checking system
- 3.1.1 Null case theory of Control
- 3.1.2 CP, IP or AGRP?
- 3.2 A visibility-based account of agreement
- 3.3 Predication as feature checking in AGKP
- 3.3.1 Alexiadou & Anagnostopolou (1998)
- 3.3.2 The correlation of definiteness with word order
- 3.4 On the categorical vs. thetic distinction
- 3.5 The proposal: checking [+pred] in AGRsP
- 3.6 Wackernagel's insight
- 4. AGRP IN INFINITIVAL CLAUSES:ICELANDIC AND HUNGARIAN
- 4.1 Icelandic infinitival constructions
- 4.2 Non-nominative subjects
- 4.3 Hungarian infinitival constructions
- 4.3.1 Cutting the infinitival pie
- 4.3.2 AGRP in the Dative Control/Dative Raising Class
- 4.3.3 AGRP in Control, Raising and ECM
- 4.3.3.1 The status of PRO in Control
- 4.3.3.2 The role of the matrix AGRP in Raising and ECM
- 4.3.3.3 Causative constructions
- 5. AGRP IN OTHER FORMS OF NON-FINITE PREDICATION
- 5.1 Analysing small clauses
- 5.1.1 The Distribution of Small Clauses
- 5.1.2 Complex predicates vs. LF- incorporation
- 5.1.3 Two strategies of case checking
- 5.2 Functional categories in participle clauses
- 5.2.1 Anterior and contemporaneous participle clauses
- 5.2.2 The subject of participle clauses
- 5.2.3 Voice/tense correlation in participle clauses
- 5.3 The Balkan Obviation and Control subjunctive revisited
- 5.3.1 The temporal organization of Obviation subjunctives
- 5.3.2 The status of the null subject in Control subjunctive clauses
- 5.4 Welsh finite and non-finite infinitival clauses
- 5.4.1 Semantic classification of Welsh matrix predicates taking infinitival clauses
- 5.4.2 Lexical vs. null subjects in Welsh infinitival clauses
- 6. CONCLUSION
- REFERENCES
- INDEX
- The series Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today
