Chapter 6
Past participle agreement
Article outline
- 6.1Introduction
- 6.2The distribution of past participle agreement
- 6.3Previous analyses
- 6.4Participle agreement is the Spell-out of an edge feature
- 6.4.1Successive cyclic movement
- 6.4.2The edge feature
- 6.4.3Timing of EF-insertion
- 6.4.4Feature insertion and the Strict Cycle Condition
- 6.4.5Edge features and Agree on Perf
- 6.4.6Unvalued features
- 6.4.7Ā-movement does not trigger participle agreement
- 6.5Derivations
- 6.5.1Transitive verbs with object clitic
- 6.5.2Transitive verbs with reflexive direct object
- 6.5.3Transitive verbs with reflexive indirect object
- 6.5.4Transitive verbs with multiple clitics
- 6.5.5Unaccusative verbs
- 6.5.6Passive clauses
- 6.5.7Impersonal clauses
- 6.6Participle agreement in the absence of overt movement
- 6.6.1Tests for the position of the DP
- 6.6.1.1Control of PRO inside an adjunct clause
- 6.6.1.2Anaphoric binding
- 6.6.1.3Quantifier scope interactions
- 6.6.1.4Quantifier floating
- 6.6.1.5Short scrambling impossible
- 6.7Participle agreement in other Italo-Romance varieties
- 6.7.1The edge-feature-type
- 6.7.2The object-agreement-type
- 6.7.3The clitic-type
- 6.7.4Languages without past participle agreement
- 6.8Past participle agreement and auxiliary selection
- 6.9Summary
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Notes