Aug 292019
 

My squib with Maria Polinsky, “The Agreement Theta Generalization,” has been published in Glossa. In this squib, we propose a new generalization concerning the structural relationship between theta assigners and heads showing morpho-phonologically overt agreement, when the two interact with the same argument DP. This structural generalization bears directly on the proper modeling of syntactic agreement, as well as the prospects for reducing other syntactic (and syntacto-semantic) dependencies to the same underlying mechanism. (This work began as Section 7 of the unpublished manuscript “Agreement and semantic concord: a spurious unification,” but has now been expanded into a standalone squib.)

The published version is freely available for download here. (Yay for Open Access!)

If you prefer a pre-print, that is still available here.

bibtex
@article{PolinskyPreminger:2019,
	Author = {Polinsky, Maria and Preminger, Omer},
	Doi = {10.5334/gjgl.936},
	Journal = {Glossa},
	Pages = {102},
	Title = {The {{\em{{A}greement {T}heta {G}eneralization}}}},
	Volume = {4(1)},
	Year = {2019}}