Inflected intensifiers: the structure dependence of parasitic agreement.

Norbert Corver

doi:10.5281/zenodo.4680312

Inflected intensifiers: the structure dependence of parasitic agreement.

Norbert Corver

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This article examines parasitic agreement in Dutch, that is, the appearance of an inflection whose existence is dependent on the presence of a "real" inflection. Specifically, an intensifying degree word (optionally) carries an inflection that is associated with a gradable attributive adjective. The article lays bare various properties of, and constraints on, the phenomenon of parasitic agreement. An important conclusion that follows from the analysis of parasitic agreement is that this phenomenon is structure dependent, just like the parasitic gap phenomenon. The structural configuration that is claimed to be at the basis of parasitic agreement
is the Spec-head relationship.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Syntactic Architecture and its Consequences, Volume 3: Inside Syntax.
Subtitle of host publication	Inside syntax
Editors	András Bárány, Theresa Biberauer, Jamie Douglas, Sten Vikner
Place of Publication	Berlin
Publisher	Language Science Press
Chapter	9
Pages	185-217
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-96110-308-9
ISBN (Print)	978-3-98554-004-4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4680312
Publication status	Published - 2021

Keywords

intensifier
adjective
inflection
parasitism
structure dependence
Dutch

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Inflected intensifiers: the structure dependence of parasitic agreement. / Corver, Norbert.
Syntactic Architecture and its Consequences, Volume 3: Inside Syntax. : Inside syntax. ed. / András Bárány; Theresa Biberauer; Jamie Douglas; Sten Vikner. Berlin: Language Science Press, 2021. p. 185-217.

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