This paper focuses on the object-verb agreement pattern present in the perfective aspect in
\nKutchi Gujarati (Indo-Aryan). The language has a 3rd person object reflexive NP, whose
\npresence triggers agreement mismatch: The verb appears to reflect the features of the subject
\ninstead of the object. Such agreement displacement also occurs in clauses where the subject
\nconsists of two conjoined DPs and a plural reflexive object, pot-pothane. Canonically, in clauses
\nwith conjuncts in argument positions, the verb typically shows plural agreement. However the
\npresence of this 3rd person reflexive results in 1st conjunct agreement (Benmamoun 1992).
\nI propose reflexives cannot trigger verbal agreement (an anaphor agreement effect, Rizzi
\n1990), causing agreement displacement: The verb actually agrees with the subject rather than the
\nreflexive object. I argue plural agreement is established via Agree under c-command (Chomsky
\n2001), a relationship between a probe and a goal, established when an agreeing head is merged.
\n<\/P>
\n
Contrastively, I argue that first conjunct agreement is a second cycle effect (Bejar and Rezac
\n2009), where a probe on v can search as high as its specifier if it does not find a suitable goal in
\nits c-command domain. I argue subject &P\u0092s are phases, and spell out at the next phase level; the
\ndifference between plural agreement and first conjunct agreement is whether the &P has spelled
\nout (which results in first conjunct) or not (which results in plural agreement). It follows that
\nagreement displacement happens late in the derivation, explaining 1st conjunct agreement.<\/P><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Please join us for this week’s Ling-Lunch: Speaker: Pritty Patel Time: Thurs 4\/1, 12:30-1:45 Place: 32-D461 Title: First Conjunct Agreement under Agreement Displacement This paper focuses on the object-verb agreement pattern present in the perfective aspect in Kutchi Gujarati (Indo-Aryan). The language has a 3rd person object reflexive NP, whose presence triggers agreement mismatch: The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1399"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1419,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399\/revisions\/1419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}