Part II: Selected papers presented at the Dutch Annual Linguistics Day
of 2019
Restrictions on “Low” person agreement in Dutch specificational
copular constructions
Agreement between the verb and its arguments as a predominant
phenomenon in language has received major attention in the theoretical
literature. One specific aspect under discussion concerns differences between
number and person agreement, with the latter being the more restricted one
(restricted by
Baker’s 2008 SCOPA, by
variants of the Person Licensing Condition of
Béjar & Rezac 2003, or by multiple agreement see
Schütze 2003;
Ackema & Neeleman 2018). In this
paper we address the restrictions on person agreement with a nominative noun
phrase in a low position by investigating a relatively little-discussed
configuration, namely specificational copular constructions in Dutch such as
dat de inspiratie voor deze roman niet jij
%bent/??is. We provide data from both a
production and a rating study comparing 3/2 person agreement and show that what
initially looks like a “person effect” in Dutch turns out to be a pronoun
effect.
Article outline
- 1.Introduction: “Low” person agreement and specificational copular clauses
- 2.Production study
- 2.1Method and participants
- 2.2Conditions and materials
- 2.3Results and statistical analysis
- 2.4Summary
- 3.Rating study
- 3.1Method and participants
- 3.2Conditions and materials
- 3.3Results and statistical analysis
- 3.4Summary
- 4.Discussion and conclusion
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
-
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