Restrictions on “Low” person agreement in Dutch specificational copular constructions
- Agreement between the verb and its arguments as a predominant phenomenon in language has received major attention in the theoretical literature. One specific aspect under discussion concerns differences between number and person agreement, with the latter being the more restricted one (restricted by Baker’s 2008 SCOPA, by variants of the Person Licensing Condition of Béjar & Rezac 2003, or by multiple agreement see Schütze 2003; Ackema & Neeleman 2018). In this paper we address the restrictions on person agreement with a nominative noun phrase in a low position by investigating a relatively little-discussed configuration, namely specificational copular constructions in Dutch such as dat de inspiratie voor deze roman niet jij %bent / ??is. We provide data from both a production and a rating study comparing 3/2 person agreement and show that what initially looks like a “person effect” in Dutch turns out to be a pronoun effect.
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| Author: | Jutta Hartmann, Caroline Heycock |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-94136 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1075/avt.00028.har |
| ISBN: | 978-90-272-6173-1 |
| Parent Title (English): | Linguistics in the Netherlands |
| Series (Serial Number): | Linguistics in the Netherlands (36) |
| Publisher: | Benjamins |
| Place of publication: | Amsterdam |
| Editor: | Janine Berns, Elena Tribushinina |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Year of first Publication: | 2019 |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2019/11/25 |
| Tag: | Dutch; copular constructions; person agreement; syntax |
| First Page: | 130 |
| Last Page: | 146 |
| Note: | Dieser Beitrag ist aus urheberrechtlichen Gründen online nicht frei zugänglich. |
| DDC classes: | 400 Sprache / 400 Sprache, Linguistik |
| Open Access?: | nein |
| Program areas: | Grammatik |
| Licence (German): |  Urheberrechtlich geschützt |