Closest conjunct agreement with attributive adjectives

An, Aixiu; Abeillé, Anne

doi:10.1017/s0959269521000193

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“…scheme of Figure 3, conjoined nominal phrases fit well. References: for recent discussion of resolution and semantic agreement see Thorvaldsdóttir (2019) on Icelandic, and An & Abeillé (2022) on French. For comitative phrases, which are related to conjoined noun phrases, see Corbett (2022b: 200-201).…”

Section: Conjoined Nominal Phrasesmentioning

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The Agreement Hierarchy and (generalized) semantic agreement

Corbett

2023

Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics

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Therefore typology requires a means for generalizing over them. Instances like plural have are frequently termed "semantic agreement" (vs. "syntactic agreement" for singular has), but this notion has proved difficult. The challenge is to encompass the full typological range of alternative agreements. These include the core instances: (i) hybrid nouns like family; and (ii) constructional mismatches, such as conjoined nominal phrases, but also less obvious phenomena: (iii) split hybrids where neither alternative is straightforwardly semantic, both appear related to form, and (iv) examples like Scandinavian "pancake sentences", which stretch semantic agreement towards pragmatics. These different types are comparable in that (i) the alternatives are realized by the normal agreement forms; and (ii) they are subject to the Agreement Hierarchy. Hence they demand a common treatment. To achieve this, I first unpack the Agreement Hierarchy constraint into the agreement target positions and the directionality implied by "semantic agreement". I show how the latter arises from mismatches between the agreement information available from different sources. Typically, in the core instances, the information from one source is more evidently semantic than from the second. But in other instances, this is less clear. I argue that it is more parsimonious to treat these less obvious phenomena as falling under the constraint of the Agreement Hierarchy. They are seen as part of the pattern of a Hierarchy of Agreement Sources, which gives different degrees of "generalized semantic agreement". This reworking offers a more robust underpinning to the Agreement Hierarchy, and fits into a current trend: a typology that works is no longer sufficient, rather we examine and justify the defining criteria, and relate them to the underlying attributes of the domain.

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Section: Conjoined Nominal Phrasesmentioning

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The Agreement Hierarchy and (generalized) semantic agreement

Corbett

2023

Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics

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“…REVIEW OF LITERATURE Koutsoudas (1968) pointed out that there are many languages in the world in which two or more arguments are targeted to involve agreement. This phenomenon is called conjuncts agreement and typically closest conjuncts agreement (Munn, 1999;Benmamoun et al, 2009;Larson, 2013;Nevins & Weisser, 2019;An & Abeillé, 2022). Exploring this phenomenon across diverse languages, numerous studies in prior literature have explored into the intricacies of conjunct agreement.…”

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Syntactic Layer of Coordination and Conjuncts Agreement: Evidence from Pakistani English Newspapers

Ilyas,

Noureen,

Ali

2023

J. educ. soc. stud.

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The architectural spin of linguistic elements is schematized as a projection from the lexicon and is considered as the universal machinery to account for all the linguistic phenomena according to generativist dictums. Pakistani English newspapers are ever under investigation from various linguistic angles, such as discourse analysis, code mixing, syntactic features, etc., but coordination and its agreement have always been ignored among Pakistani scholars. In the current study, the internal syntactic layer of conjoined phrases, clauses, and sentences has been hierarchically envisaged using empirical evidence from Pakistani English newspapers. This study adopts qualitative designed research and takes Murphy and Puškar (2018) as a framework to analyse coordination and agreement patterns in newspaper discourse. According to this framework, there are some syntactic operations (merge, agree, move) and steps to conjoin the phrases, clauses, and sentences in a uniform way. This study proposes that coordination and agreement are the recursive processes within the generative paradigm. The study furthermore predicts that the patterns of agreement within conjoined phrases, clauses, and sentences are first conjunct agreement (FCA), and last conjunct agreement (LCA) on various positions: subjective and objective conjoined expressions have been investigated, and these agreement patterns are due to the gender (p) and number (#) agreement.

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“… [6] The 0–10 scale has been used successfully in a number of recent experiments on French (Shiraishi et al 2019, Abeillé et al 2020, An & Abeillé 2021), and it is close to the rating scale used in the French school system. …”

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Voice mismatch and contrast in French Right-Node Raising

Abeillé¹,

Shiraïshi²

2023

J. Ling.

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Right-Node Raising is generally considered to impose stricter identity conditions than other kinds of ellipsis, such as VP ellipsis, according to Hankamer & Sag 1976 and Hardt 1993. In this paper, we investigate voice mismatch in French Right-Node Raising (RNR) through a corpus study and two experiments. We show that RNR with voice mismatch can be found in a written corpus (frTenTen 2012) and that many examples involve coordination of a reflexive active and a short passive form. We suggest this is because semantic contrast (here, between self and external agent) plays a role according to Hartmann (2000) and Abeillé and Mouret (2010). We ran two acceptability judgement experiments to test voice mismatch and semantic contrast. We did not find any penalty for voice mismatch with VP ellipsis but an interaction with semantic contrast. We also found an effect of semantic contrast when coordinating an active and a passive VP without participle ellipsis. We conclude that voice mismatch is acceptable with RNR and propose a Head-driven Phrase-Structure Grammar (HPSG) analysis, following Chaves (2014) and Shiraïshi et al. (2019).

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Closest conjunct agreement with attributive adjectives

Cited by 6 publications

References 55 publications

The Agreement Hierarchy and (generalized) semantic agreement

The Agreement Hierarchy and (generalized) semantic agreement

Syntactic Layer of Coordination and Conjuncts Agreement: Evidence from Pakistani English Newspapers

Voice mismatch and contrast in French Right-Node Raising

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