Negation in South Saami

Blokland, Rogier; Inaba, Nobufumi

doi:10.1075/tsl.108.14blo

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“…One is used for prohibitives (the forms presented here), and one is used for warnings. Blokland and Inaba (2015) call the latter forms , and they behave identically to prohibitives as far as the data given here are concerned.…”

Section: Languages With No Feature Copyingmentioning

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Unifying subject agreement across clause types in Estonian

Norris¹

2016

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Estonian negated indicative clauses show no agreement, whereas Estonian negated imperative clauses show agreement twice: once on the main verb and once on the negation word ära. This contrasts with affirmative clauses, where agreement appears only once. I propose a unified syntax for agreement across these clausal types, arguing that the there is one head which bears a ϕ-feature probe in all Estonian sentences. There is no agreement in negated indicatives because this head has only one suitable vocabulary item in this context: ei. Doubled agreement arises due to a rule of postsyntactic Feature Copying in imperative contexts. I argue that this analysis is superior to an analysis making use of multiple ϕ-feature probes in the syntax, as such analyses struggle to account for the optionality of doubling in first-person plural contexts. The proposed analysis makes predictions about the kinds of marking possible in negated imperatives, which appear to be borne out in related Uralic languages. This investigation supports a view of the morphosyntax of agreement whereby the syntax and morphology of agreement overlap but do not coincide.

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Section: Languages With No Feature Copyingmentioning

confidence: 69%

Unifying subject agreement across clause types in Estonian

Norris¹

2016

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Negation in South Saami

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Unifying subject agreement across clause types in Estonian

Unifying subject agreement across clause types in Estonian

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