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17 - Agreement

from Part Four - Syntax

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 June 2022

By
Roberta D’Alessandro
Edited by
Adam Ledgeway  and
Martin Maiden
Adam Ledgeway
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge
Martin Maiden
Affiliation:
University of Oxford
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Summary

This chapter offers an overview of the development of the theory of agreement highlighting the major contributions that have been proposed on the basis of the Romance languages. The first part of the chapter follows the analysis of verb–subject agreement from early generative grammar to contemporary syntactic theory. After a short overview of syntactic agreement, the chapter moves on to morphological agreement, discussing among other things the relation between rich agreement and null subjecthood as well as agreement and subject clitics in Romance. The chapter offers a number of examples from standard and non-standard Romance languages.

Keywords

agreementAgreeSpec-Headparticipial agreementsubject cliticsrich inflectionnull subjectslong-distance agreementunaccusative subjects
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The Cambridge Handbook of Romance Linguistics , pp. 519 - 543
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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