Abstract
This chapter offers an overview of the development of the theory of agreement highlighting the major contributions that have been proposed on the basis of the Romance languages. The first part of the chapter follows the analysis of verb–subject agreement from early generative grammar to contemporary syntactic theory. After a short overview of syntactic agreement, the chapter moves on to morphological agreement, discussing among other things the relation between rich agreement and null subjecthood as well as agreement and subject clitics in Romance. The chapter offers a number of examples from standard and non-standard Romance languages.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | The Cambridge Handbook of Romance Linguistics |
| Editors | Adam Ledgeway, Martin Maiden |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Chapter | 17 |
| Pages | 519-543 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781108580410 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 7 Jul 2022 |
Keywords
- agreement
- agree
- Spec-Head
- participial agreement
- subject clitics
- rich inflection
- null subjects
- long-distance agreement
- unaccusative subjects