Multiple Agreement and Case Deletion: Against φ‐incompleteness
Multiple Agreement and Case Deletion: Against φ‐incompleteness
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多重协议和案例删除：针对 φ-不完整性
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10.1111/1467-9612.00042
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发表时间：
2001
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Vicki Carstens
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作者：
Vicki Carstens
我反对乔姆斯基（1999，2000）的建议，格删除相关的φ-完整性的探针，基于（i）省略性别的主题协议，例如，罗曼语的语言;（ii）包括完整的φ-功能的主题协议在班图语，重复在所有的动词中心语在一个小句。相反，我建议回到传统的观点，即某些类别是Case“分配器”，只有当探测器具有内在结构Case值时，Agree才会删除目标的Case。最后，我表明，同意这样修改帐户concord名词短语，包括concord上的'of'在非洲语言，反映φ-功能的中心名词。对这一解释至关重要的是结构分析，其中“of”与包括中心名词但不包括表面“of”对象的名词性成分合并，无论是拥有者，施事者还是主题。
I argue against Chomsky’s (1999, 2000) proposal that Case deletion correlates with the φ-completeness of probes, based on (i) the omission of gender in subject agreement in, for example, Romance languages; and (ii) the inclusion of full φ-features in subject agreement in Bantu, repeated on all verbal heads within a clause. I propose instead a return to the traditional view that certain categories are Case “assigners,” such that Agree deletes the goal’s Case only if the probe has an intrinsic structural Case value. Finally, I show that Agree so modified accounts for concord in noun phrases, including concord on ‘of’ in African languages, reflecting φ-features of head nouns. Crucial to this account is a structural analysis in which ‘of’ is merged with a nominal constituent that includes the head noun but excludes the surface ‘of’ object, be it possessor, agent, or theme.