Icelandic quirky agreement restrictions: evidence for phi-defective T in quirky subject constructions

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Title Icelandic quirky agreement restrictions: evidence for phi-defective T in quirky subject constructions
Publication Type thesis
School or College College of Humanities
Department Linguistics
Author Zupon, Andrew Lee
Date 2015-08
Description This thesis proposes a novel defective T analysis for explaining two facts about Icelandic quirky subject sentences. First, in Icelandic quirky subject sentences, the verb agrees with the nominative object rather than with the subject (1). Second, 1st and 2nd person nominative objects are blocked completely in Icelandic quirky subject sentences (2). 1. Henni leiddust strakarnir. her.dat.3sg bored.3pl the boys.nom.3pl 'She found the boys boring.' 2. * Henni leidd-umst/-ust/-ist vi. her.dat.3sg bored.1pl/3pl/dft we.nom.1pl 'She found us boring.' Based in a Minimalist Program framework, I argue that T in quirky subject sentences is ?-defective, lacking [Person]. I also describe three potential alternative Minimalist analyses of Icelandic: (i) a ?-stacking analysis based on Richards" case-stacking; (ii) a complex dependency analysis from Lopez; and (iii) a split ? probe analysis supported by Sigursson and Holmberg. All of these alternatives come with additional theoretical baggage that m
Type Text
Publisher University of Utah
Subject Agreement; Case; Icelandic; Quirky case
Dissertation Institution University of Utah
Dissertation Name Master of Arts
Language eng
Rights Management Copyright © Andrew Lee Zupon 2015
Format application/pdf
Format Medium application/pdf
Format Extent 26,887 bytes
Identifier etd3/id/3864
ARK ark:/87278/s6q277jf
Setname ir_etd
ID 197415
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6q277jf
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