2019
DOI: 10.1017/cnj.2019.20
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Person complementarity and (pseudo) Person Case Constraint effects: Evidence from Inuktitut

Abstract: This paper examines the nature of person complementarity in Eastern Canadian Inuktitut (Eskimo-Aleut), arguing that despite its apparent patterning as a Person Case Constraint (PCC) effect, it is not due to the presence of a defective intervener blocking person agreement with a lower argument, as is often the case in other languages. Instead, the observed effect is caused by a defective or missing person probe on C that cannot value local person features on absolutive arguments. Given the use of the PCC as a d… Show more

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“…The first one concerns the unavailability of 1 st /2 nd person possessor agreement marking in South Baffin Inuktitut, in which 1 st /2 nd possessors only must surface as full, oblique marked pronouns. Although initially appealing, these patterns have been shown by Compton (2019) and Yuan (2015) to be the result of phonological change rather that genuine person effects. 7 The second type of 1 st /2 nd vs 3 rd person effect is found with transitive verbs in the participial mood in Labrador Inuttut (Johns 1996) and arguably South Baffin Inuktitut (Johns & Kučerová 2017).…”
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confidence: 94%
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“…The first one concerns the unavailability of 1 st /2 nd person possessor agreement marking in South Baffin Inuktitut, in which 1 st /2 nd possessors only must surface as full, oblique marked pronouns. Although initially appealing, these patterns have been shown by Compton (2019) and Yuan (2015) to be the result of phonological change rather that genuine person effects. 7 The second type of 1 st /2 nd vs 3 rd person effect is found with transitive verbs in the participial mood in Labrador Inuttut (Johns 1996) and arguably South Baffin Inuktitut (Johns & Kučerová 2017).…”
Section: Dom As a Licensing Strategymentioning
confidence: 94%
“…These patterns suggest that at least in South Baffin Inuktitut, 1 st /2 nd person cannot occur in the absolutive case but must bear an oblique case, exactly like anaphors. The restriction on 1 st /2 nd absolutive objects being accounted for by Johns and Kučerová (2017) and Compton (2019) as a person licensing effects at the C/T level, it could follow that obligatory oblique case on anaphors and 1 st /2 nd person are the result of such a licensing strategy, in the fashion sketched above for Hindi and Punjabi. However, this conclusion remains tentative, as the relevant data should be established to be consistent dialectinternally and to arise in the same conditions (for instance, with modalis 1 st /2 nd person, the verb is apparently glossed as being intransitive in (42b), while Yuan (2018) shows that with modalis anaphors the verb bears a transitive suffix).…”
Section: Dom As a Licensing Strategymentioning
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