TY  - CHAP
U1  - Buchbeitrag
A1  - Fuß, Eric
ED  - Grewendorf, Günther
ED  - Weiß, Helmut
T1  - Complementizer agreement (in Bavarian). Feature inheritance or feature insertion?
T2  - Bavarian Syntax. Contributions to the Theory of Syntax
N2  - In recent minimalist work, it has been argued that C-agreement provides conclusive support for the following theoretical hypotheses (cf. Carstens 2003; van Koppen 2005; Haegeman & van Koppen 2012): (i) C hosts a separate set of phi-features, a parametric choice possibly linked to the V2 property; (ii) feature checking/valuation is accomplished under (closest) c-command (i.e. by the operation Agree, cf. Chomsky 2000 and subsequent work). This paper reviews the significance of C-agreement for syntactic theory and argues that certain systematic asymmetries between regular verbal agreement and complementizer agreement suggest that the latter does not result from operations that are part of narrow syntax. The case is based on the observation that at least in some Germanic varieties (most notably Bavarian), the realization of inflectional features in the C-domain is sensitive to adjacency effects and deletion of the finite verb in right node raising and comparatives. The fact that C may not carry inflection when the finite verb has been elided is taken to suggest that complementizer agreement does not involve a dependency between C and the subject, but father between C and the finite verb (i.e. T). More precisely, it is argued that inflectional features present in the C-domain are added postsyntactically via a process of feature insertion (cf. e.g. Embick 1997; Embick & Noyer 2001; Harbour 2003) that creates a copy of T’s (valued) <J)-set. It will then be shown that this account can also capture phenomena like first conjunct agreement (FCA) and external possessor agreement, which are often presented as crucial evidence of the syntactic nature of complementizer agreement (cf. van Koppen 2005; Haegeman & van Koppen 2012).
T3  - Linguistik aktuell - 220 
KW  - Deutsch
KW  - Mundart
KW  - Bairisch
KW  - Nebensatz
KW  - Kongruenz <Linguistik>
Y1  - 2014
UN  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-50692
SN  - 9789027257031
SB  - 9789027257031
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1075/la.220
DO  - https://doi.org/10.1075/la.220
N1  - Dieser Beitrag ist aus urheberrechtlichen Gründen nicht frei zugänglich. 
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SP  - 51
EP  - 82
PB  - Benjamins
CY  - Amsterdam
ER  -