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Agreement and Its Failures LinguisticInquiryMonographs SamuelJayKeyser,GeneralEditor AcompletelistofbookspublishedintheLinguisticInquiryMonographsseries appearsatthebackofthisbook. Agreement and Its Failures OmerPreminger TheMITPress Cambridge,Massachusetts London,England ©2014MassachusettsInstituteofTechnology All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form by any electronic or mechanical means (including photocopying, recording, or information storageandretrieval)withoutpermissioninwritingfromthepublisher. MITPressbooksmaybepurchasedatspecialquantitydiscountsforbusinessorsales promotionaluse.Forinformation,[email protected] to Special Sales Department, The MIT Press, 55 Hayward Street, Cambridge, MA 02142. ThisbookwassetinChennaibydiacriTech.PrintedandboundintheUnitedStatesof America. LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Preminger,Omer,1976- Agreementanditsfailures/OmerPreminger. pagescm.—(Linguisticinquirymonographs) Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. ISBN 978-0-262-02740-3 (hardcover : alk. paper)—ISBN 978-0-262-52617-3 (pbk.: alk. paper) 1. Grammar, Comparative and general—Agreement. 2. Grammar, Comparative and general—Case. 3. Grammar, Comparative and general—Syntax. I. Title. P299.A35P732014 415—dc23 2013046630 10987654321 ToSaftaYaffa Contents SeriesForeword xi Acknowledgments xiii Abbreviations xv 1 Introduction 1 2 ModelingtheObligatorinessofϕϕ-Agreement 5 2.1 AWorkingDefinitionofAgreement 5 2.2 ThreeModelsfortheObligatorinessofAgreement 6 2.3 FailedAgreement,andWhyWeShouldBeInterestedinIt 12 3 AgreementintheKicheanAgent-FocusConstruction:TheFacts 15 3.1 SomeBasicFactsaboutKicheanandAgent-Focus 15 3.2 AgreementinKicheanAgent-Focus 18 3.3 TheAgent-FocusPersonRestriction 22 3.4 TheMorphophonologyofKicheanAgreementMarkers 24 4 ADerivationalAccountofAbsolutiveAgreementinKichean 29 4.1 Background: The Person Case Constraint, and Béjar and Rezac’s (2003) AccountofIt 31 4.2 RelativizedProbing 39 4.3 OntheFeaturalCoarsenessofCliticDoubling 50 4.4 ApplyingBéjarandRezac’s(2003)AccounttoKichean 54 4.5 SomeAlternativeAnalysesandTheirDrawbacks 67 4.6 AbsolutiveAgreementinRegularTransitivesandIntransitives 75 Appendix:EvidencefromTzotzilfortheSeparabilityofPersonand NumberinMayan 79 viii Contents 5 DerivationalTime-Bombs:InadequateforDerivingtheObligatoriness ofϕϕ-Agreement 85 5.1 FailedNumberAgreementinKicheanAgent-Focus 86 5.2 FailedPersonAgreementinKicheanAgent-Focus 92 5.3 IfNotDerivationalTime-Bombs,ThenWhat?OnObligatory OperationsandViolableConstraints 95 Appendix:HowDidWeGetHere?AHistoricalInterlude 100 6 TwoMoreCaseStudiesinFailedAgreement 103 6.1 TheConjoint/DisjointAlternationandNominalAugmentMorphology inZulu 103 6.2 BasqueUnergatives 111 7 On“Salience”HierarchiesandScales 123 7.1 Against“Salience”Hierarchies/ScalesintheAccountofKichean Agent-Focus 124 7.2 AnArgumentfromZuluagainst“Salience”inKichean Agent-Focus 127 7.3 Discussion 127 8 Datives,DefectiveIntervention,andCaseDiscrimination 129 8.1 TheInabilityofDativestoValueFeaturesonaϕ-Probe 130 8.2 TheDativeParadox:Dativesas“Defective”Interveners 131 8.3 ExistingTreatmentsoftheDativeParadox 134 8.4 InterventionasFailedAgreement 157 8.5 AgainstaViolable-ConstraintsAlternative 170 8.6 Summary 174 9 Where’sϕϕ?Insyntax. 177 9.1 TheArgumentforMorphologicalCaseandϕ-AgreementasPostsyntactic Operations 178 9.2 TheMissingEvidence:Non-Quirky-SubjectLanguages 182 9.3 CaseCompetitioninSyntax 186 9.4 Summary 208 Appendix:CaseAssignmentandCaseDiscriminationintheKichean Agent-FocusConstruction 210 Contents ix 10 ExtensionsandOutlook 215 10.1 TheLogicofϕ-AgreementasanExemplarofSyntactic Computation 215 10.2 Outlook:WhatIsLeftfor“UninterpretableFeatures”? 233 11. Conclusion 239 Notes 243 References 263 SeriesList 281 Index 287

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