Numeral Phrases as Subjects and Agreement with Participles and Predicative Adjectives*

Witkoś, Jacek; Dziubała-Szrejbrowska, Dominika

doi:10.1353/jsl.2016.0005

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“…φ-agreement with QNP subjects, however, does not alternate: numerals 1-4 combine with nouns in the nominative, allowing predicates to agree only with N. With nominal quantifiers, Q-Agree is the only option, except for cases where the quantifier (nominal or paucal) bears accusative case, then only default n.sg is available. The same restriction holds for higher numerals, which, as argued by Przepiórkowski & Patejuk (2012); Miechowicz-Mathiasen (2014); Witkoś & Dziubała-Szrejbrowska (2016), are accusative by default, and for which, thus, default is the only option. Polish does, however, show agreement alternations in case.…”

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Driemel

Stojković

2019

Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics

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This paper focuses on the great variety of φ-agreement patterns and case alternations quantified noun phrases trigger in Serbo-Croatian. Novel data from Serbo-Croatian are contributed, showing more agreement patterns than so far attested. Crucial for the analysis is an observation that draws a parallel between the agreement patterns of quantified noun phrases and conjoined noun phrases. We will show that the data can best be described by a strictly derivational agreement system based on rule ordering (Müller 2009; Murphy &Puškar 2018) and operating in narrow syntax. Existing case-based approaches (Pesetsky 1982; Franks 1994; Bošković 2003; 2006) and index-concord based feature systems (Wechsler & Zlatić 2000; 2003; Danon 2013) fail to account for agreement alternations in pre-and post-verbal position as well as in NP-topicalisation configurations.

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Stojković

2019

Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics

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“…five.acc students.gen was.3sg.neut selected.pl.nonvir.acc/pl.nonvir.gen 'Five students were selected.' However, Witkoś and Dziubała-Szrejbrowska (2016) show how this problem can be solved if the representation of the ANS includes a functional domain consisting of one set of case projections (in the sense of Caha 2009) which needs to express the case of both the NP-complement (genitive) and the numeral itself (accusative). Witkoś et al (forthcoming), includes a detailed discussion of competing approaches to the issue of Numeral Phrases in the subject position.…”

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Germain

Witkoś

2018

Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics

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This paper examines the predictions of Chomsky's (2013; Labeling Algorithm for structures with non-nominative, non-agreeing elements in what looks like a subject position: since such non-nominative subjects do not agree with the verb, the resulting structure cannot be labeled through feature sharing. Thus, the only option for such subjects is to move from [Spec, TP] or never land there. We argue for the latter option, motivating it for PPs in Polish locative inversion, instrumental DPs in Polish predicate inversion, dative subjects in Russian and Polish, genitive subjects in Lithuanian Inferential Evidentials, and accusative DPs in Russian and Polish Adversity Impersonals. We conclude by showing that under certain very restricted circumstances (i.e. when partial Agree takes place or Agree for structural case holds but Agree for phi-features is attempted and fails for independent reasons), the non-nominative elements can remain in [Spec, TP].

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Agreement under Case Matching in Polish co and który Relative Clauses Headed by Numerically Quantified Nouns*

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2016

Journal of Slavic Linguistics

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Numeral Phrases as Subjects and Agreement with Participles and Predicative Adjectives*

Cited by 6 publications

References 24 publications

How to agree with a QNP

How to agree with a QNP

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Agreement under Case Matching in Polish co and który Relative Clauses Headed by Numerically Quantified Nouns*

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