Chapter 10
Diachronic analysis of past participle agreement in
Catalan
A grammaticalization approach
Article outline
- 10.1Additional assumptions
- 10.2Grammaticalizing formal features and avoiding redundancy
- 10.2.1Stage 1: Obligatory agreement
- 10.2.2Stage 2: PPA controlled by specificity?
- 10.2.3Stage 3: Positional rules on agreement
- 10.2.4Stage 4: Optional agreement
- 10.2.5Stage 5: Loss of agreement
- 10.3Outcomes, shortcomings, outlook
- 10.3.1The division between narrow syntax and the interfaces
- 10.3.2Consequences of grammaticalization for accusative
case
- 10.3.3Some remarks on unaccusativity
- 10.3.4Open issues
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Notes