Elided Clausal Conjunction Is Not the Only Source of Closest‐Conjunct Agreement: A Picture‐Matching Study

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Syntax-A Journal of Theoretical Experimental and Interdisciplinary Research Pub Date : 2020-03-01 DOI:10.1111/SYNT.12171

Boban Arsenijević, Jana Willer-Gold, Nadira Aljović, Nermina Čordalija, M. Vukosav, Nedžad Leko, Frane Malenica, Franc Marušič, T. Milicev, N. Miliċeviċ, Petra Mišmaš, Ivana Mitić, Anita Peti-Stantić, B. Stankovič, Jelena Tusek, A. Nevins

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Abstract

A recurring hypothesis about the agreement phenomena generalized as closest-conjunct agreement takes this pattern to result from reduced clausal conjunction, simply displaying the agreement of the verb with the nonconjoined subject of the clause whose content survives ellipsis (Aoun, Benmamoun & Sportiche 1994, 1999; see also Wilder 1997). Closest-conjunct agreement is the dominant agreement pattern in the South Slavic languages Slovenian and Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian. A natural question is whether closest-conjunct agreement in these varieties may indeed be analyzed as entirely derived from conjunction reduction. In this article, we report on two experiments conducted to test this. The results reject the hypothesis as far as these languages are concerned, thereby upholding the relevance of models developed to account for closest-conjunct agreement within theories of agreement.

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省略小句连词不是最密切连词一致的唯一来源:一项图片匹配研究

关于被概括为最接近连词一致的一致现象的一个反复出现的假设认为，这种模式是由减少的小句连词引起的，简单地显示了动词与内容保留省略的小句的非连接主语的一致性（Aoun，Benmamoun&Sportiche 19941999；另见Wilder 1997）。最密切的连词协议是南斯拉夫语言斯洛文尼亚语和波斯尼亚语/克罗地亚语/塞尔维亚语中占主导地位的协议模式。一个自然的问题是，这些变体中最接近的连词一致性是否真的可以被分析为完全源于连词减少。在这篇文章中，我们报告了为测试这一点而进行的两个实验。就这些语言而言，结果拒绝了这一假设，从而支持了在一致性理论中为解释最接近的连词一致性而开发的模型的相关性。

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期刊介绍： Syntax publishes a wide range of articles on the syntax of natural languages and closely related fields. The journal promotes work on formal syntactic theory and theoretically-oriented descriptive work on particular languages and comparative grammar. Syntax also publishes research on the interfaces between syntax and related fields such as semantics, morphology, and phonology, as well as theoretical and experimental studies in sentence processing, language acquisition, and other areas of psycholinguistics that bear on syntactic theories. In addition to full length research articles, Syntax features short articles which facilitate a fast review process. ''In the few years of its existence, Syntax quickly became one of the most prominent journals in the field, and unique as a source for high-quality studies at the forefront of research, combining theoretical inquiry and often significant innovation with outstanding descriptive and experimental work. It is indispensable for researchers in the areas it covers.'' Noam Chomsky, Massachusets Institute of Technology, USA