Peter W. Smith is a postdoctoral researcher at the Goethe University Frankfurt. His main research topics focus on morphological and syntactic terms and have focused in particular on the representation of grammatical characteristics and the mechanics of the agreement. His work has been published in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, Journal of Linguistics, Morphology and Glossa, among others. Match is a pervasive phenomenon in natural languages. Depending on the definition of what constitutes an agreement, it is found either in virtually every natural language we know, or at least in very many languages. Either way, it seems to be an essential component of the system that underpins our syntactic knowledge. Since the introduction of Operation Agree in Chomsky (2000), consensus phenomena and the mechanism underlying agreement have attracted much attention in the minimalist literature and have received different theoretical treatments at different stages. Since then, many different phenomena involving dependencies between syntax elements, including motion or not, have been taken into account with Agree. The tuning mechanism thus provides a powerful tool for modeling dependencies between syntactic elements far beyond φ feature agreement. The articles collected in this volume further address these issues and contribute to the ongoing discussions on the agreement. The authors gathered in this book are internationally recognized experts in the field of agreement.
Accept an agreement in the minimalist program edited by Peter W. Smith Johannes Mursell Katharina Hartmann Open Generative Syntax 6 language science press Open Generative Syntax Editors: Elena Anagnostopoulou, Mark Baker, Roberta D`Alessandro, David Pesetsky, Susi Wurmbrand In this series: 1. Bailey, Laura R. & Michelle Sheehan (eds.). Order and structure in syntax I: Word order and syntactic structure. 2. Sheehan, Michelle and Laura R. Bailey (Eds.).
Order and structure in syntax II: subjectivity and structure of arguments. 3. Bacskai-Atkari, Julia. Deletion phenomena in comparative constructions: English comparisons from an interlinguistic perspective. 4. Franco, Ludovico, Mihaela Marchis Moreno & Matthew Reeve (Eds.). Agreement, case and place in the nominal and verbal domain. 5.
Bross, Fabian. The Clausreal Syntax of German Sign Language: A Cartographic Approach. 6. Smith, Peter W., Johannes Mursell & Katharina Hartmann (Eds.). Agree to accept: Agreement in the minimalist program. ISSN: 2568-7336 Agree to Agree Agreement in the Minimalist Programme Édité par Peter W. Smith Johannes Mursell Katharina Hartmann language science press W. Smith, Peter, Johannes Mursell & Katharina Hartmann (Eds.).
2020. Agree to Agree: Consent in the minimalist program (Open Generative Syntax 6). Berlin: Language Science Press. Smith, Johannes Mursell & Katharina Hartmann iii 1 2 Étiquetage, sélection et vérification des caractéristiques Hedde Zeijlstra 31 3 Concorde et étiquetage Vicki Carstens 71 4 Accord d’objet et fonctions grammaticales: une réévaluation Peter W. Smith 117 5 Opacity in agreement Laura Kalin 149 6 Agreement distributed in participatory sandwich configurations Franc Lanko Marušič & Andrew Nevins 179 7 AWSOM correlation in comparison Marking of Bantu objects Jenneke van der Wal 199 8 Agreement on a broad front: Thematic agreement in Ripano Roberta D`Alessandro 235 9 Distance contract and information structure Johannes Mursell 271 10 Distance contract and location: a reprojection approach Kristin Börjesson & Gereon Müller 307 11 Agreeing downward probes: Evaluation of anaphoric characteristics and phase reference Michael Diercks, Marjo van Koppen & Michael Putnam 347 Content 12 The morphosyntax of allocutive chord in Tamil Thomas McFadden 391 13 Distinct femoral classes of anaphora in an enriched person system Sandhya Sundaresan 425 Index 463 ii Acknowledgements This book comes from the workshop on syntactic agreement, which took place on 14.07.2016 at the Goethe University Frankfurt. First of all, we would like to thank all the participants and participants of the workshop for their contribution to an excellent and stimulating workshop. Secondly, we would like to thank Language Science Press and Open Generative Syntax for their zeal in publishing this volume, and we are very grateful to all the critics who have greatly improved the content of the volume. Last but not least, but at least as important, we would like to thank all those who supported us in editing the volume: Lena Merkens, Beata Moskal, Corinna Trabandt and Felix Kopecky. Chapter 1 Some remarks on the agreement within the minimalist program Peter W.
Smith Goethe University Frankfurt am Main Johannes Mursell Goethe University Frankfurt am Main Katharina Hartmann Goethe University Frankfurt am Main The agreement was of great theoretical interest to the minimalist program. Since Chomsky (2000; 2001), the agreement has largely been managed through Operation Agree, which is the operation responsible for moving characteristic values from one element to another. While there is a general consensus that agrees in the minimalist literature, there are various questions about how to formulate it and where it fits into grammar. In this chapter, we provide an overview of some of the main debates surrounding the agreement and provide summaries of how the chapters in this book aim to answer some of the open-ended questions. 1 Introductory agreement is a pervasive phenomenon in natural languages (Corbett 2006). Depending on the definition of what constitutes an agreement, it is found either in virtually every natural language we know, or at least in very many languages. Either way, it seems to be an essential component of the system that underpins our syntactic knowledge. Since the introduction of the agreement operation in Chomsky (2000), (1), the chord phenomena and the mechanism underlying the agreement have produced Peter W. Smith, Johannes Mursell and Katharina Hartmann. 2020.
Some comments on the agreement as part of the minimalist program. In Peter W. Smith, Johannes Mursell & Katharina Hartmann (eds.), Agree to Agree: Agreement in the Minimalist Programme, 1–29. Berlin: Language Science Press. DOI:10.5281/zenodo.3541743 Peter W. Smith, Johannes Mursell & Katharina Hartmann received a lot of attention in minimalist literature and received different treatments at different stages. (1) agree (from Zeijlstra 2012), α β iff may be appropriate: a. α has at least one unassessed and uninterpretable characteristic and β carries an appropriate interpretable and assessed characteristic. b.
α c orders β c. β is the most targeted α d. β carries an unvalued and uninterpretable characteristic. While the most common mechanism for treating remote trait dependencies in current work is still Operation Agree, introduced in Chomsky (2000), the landscape of approaches to this operation has become very broad, with significant debates on various aspects of Agree`s formulation. Some of these debates are discussed below, when they are relevant to our collection. 1. Should consent be handled by a dedicated agreement operation, which is a primitive operation of the syntactic component such as fusion? 2. . . .