The dynamics of agreement and conjunction

Parameters of morphosyntactic variation in Bantu1

“…(61) wa-nzehe wa-li-ghul-a li-banzi na ma-bwe 2-elders SM2-OM5-buy-FV 5-wood and 6-stone 'The elders bought a wooden board and stones' There are differences of detail between the languages which show partial agreement, as well as different restrictions on when partial agreement is possible (related to wordorder as well as animacy), but the main distinction captured here is whether partial agreement is possible at all or not (see Marten 2000Marten , 2003Marten , 2005 for further discussion).…”

Information structure and agreement: Subjects and subject agreement in Swahili and Herero

“…Like the previous example, (26) involves the building of a linked node at the outset of the parse, which is decorated with information from Rosa. Following previous analyses (Cann et al, 2005;Marten, 2005), the Swahili conjunction na can be analysed as lexically inducing a link structure, and so in this example, the building of a link structure is explicitly encoded.…”

“…10 The unification of the two nodes is possible because the subject marker is analysed as not lexically including a bottom restriction, allowing the projection of the information from both the subject and the subject maker in the same local domain, an analysis which will also be exploited for post-verbal subjects below. With respect to class agreement, a more complex analysis is required for agreement with conjoined subjects (see Marten, 2000Marten, , 2005. 11 Alternatively, a globally unfixed node might be constructed before the locally unfixed node is built, a case which I discuss further below.…”

Scientific modelling in generative grammar and the dynamic turn in syntax

“…Technically such cases require the LINK relation to be introduced. Marten (2005) describes the LINK relation as "not related to the matrix tree by a function-argument relation" (i.e. it is not a mother or a daughter node), it is part of the tree and imposes a requirement on the main tree that there be a copy of its formula value included" (534).…”