MONICA IRIMIA MAY 27TH, 2013 HOW TO BE SPECIFIC SECONDARY PREDICATES IN FORMAL FRAMEWORKS, UTRECHT __________________________________________________________________________________________________ HOW TO BE SPECIFIC: DIFFERENTIAL MARKING OF SHARED ARGUMENTS WITH SECONDARY PREDICATES Monica-Alexandrina Irimia University of Toronto [email protected] I. ONE ‘SPECIFIC’ PROBLEM: the less often discussed observation that the shared argument of depictives and ECM/raising variants of Adj.Preds must carry differential object marking (DOM) remark particularly salient in languages which distinguish classes of objects formally (as seen in the examples in 5) along the line of specificity in such languages, specific1 (animate and human) objects carry more complex morphological marking (obligatory presence of preposition-like elements, accusative case marking, reflexivization, etc.) especially when indefinite (see Aissen 2003, Bossong 1991, 1997, de Swart 2007, Iemmolo 2010, Irimia 2011, López 2012, Öztürk 2010, Rodríguez-Mondoñedo 2007, Torrego 2008, etc.) DIFFERENTIAL OBJECT MARKING IN SPANISH: - the marker a is obligatory with animate specific objects, and unfelicitous/ungrammatical with inanimate DOs (irrespective of specificity) (1) a) b) SPANISH Ha encontrado Have.3.SG2. found ‘S/he has met the girl.’ Ha encontrado Have.3.SG. found ‘S/he has found the book.’ *(a) DOM la niña. the girl. (*a) DOM el libro. the girl. vs. DIFFERENTIAL OBJECT MARKING IN ROMANIAN - the marker pe (with clitic doubling) is obligatory with animate specific objects, and impossible with inanimate DOs (irrespective of specificity) (2) a) ROMANIAN Văd un copil. See.1. SG. a child. ‘I see some child or other.’ 1 Chastain 1975, Donnellan 1966, 1978, Carlson 1977, Ioup 1977, Kripke 1977, Fodor and Sag 1982, Heim 1988, Enç 1991, Ludlow and Neale 1991, Condoravdi 1992, Diesing 1992, de Hoop 1996, etc.: an entity is made salient/identified/individualized within someone’s mind, but the audience does not/cannot precisely identify which entity the mind has individualized. 2 ABBREVIATIONS: Acc. = accusative, Clt. = clitic, Comp. = complementizer, Cond. = conditional, Cplx. Pred. = complex predicate, Dft. = default, Dir. Ev. = direct evidential, Ep. V. = epenthetic vowel, Ess. = essive, F. = feminine, Hrs. = hearsay, IE. = indirect evidential, Impers. = impersonal, Impf. = imperfective, Indir. Ev. = indirect evidential, Infer. = inferential, M(asc). = masculine, Nom. = nominative, Part. = partitive, Pl. = plural, Pres. = present, Prog. = progressive, Pst. = past, Sg. = singular, Specf. = specific, Top. = topic marker; Page 1 of 19 MONICA IRIMIA MAY 27TH, 2013 HOW TO BE SPECIFIC SECONDARY PREDICATES IN FORMAL FRAMEWORKS, UTRECHT __________________________________________________________________________________________________ b) c) (3) a) b) Îl văd Clt.3.sg.m. see.1. SG. ‘I see a specific child.’ *(Îl) văd Clt.3.sg.m. see.1. SG. ‘I see a specific train.’ pe un DOM a copil. child. pe un DOM a tren. train. HINDI-URDU laṛke-ne machli kaa-i. boy-ERG. fish.F.SG. eat-PFV.F.SG. ’The boy ate fish.’ laṛke-ne machli-ko kaa-i. boy-ERG. fish.F.SG.-DOM eat-PFV.F.SG. ’The boy ate the fish/a specific piece of fish.’ Functions of the marker – ko, as described in classical grammar (Kahru 2006, Agnihotri 2007, Jain 2007, Hook 1974, Koul 2008, etc.). For example, Kahru (2006, page 175): - the noun (phrase) is unique; or - the noun (phrase) is animate, especially human; or - if inanimate, the noun (phrase) is definite and specific; or - the noun phrase is used in the double transitive construction (i.e. with secondary predicates or other Adj. predicates) HOWEVER, when a depictive is added to the structure, the object is normally marked as differential, irrespective of animacy: (4) a) b) c) d) (5) ROMANIAN: *Mănâncă un peşte crud. (unless the adjective has an attributive function) Eat.3.SG. a fish raw.M.SG. Îl mănâncă pe (un) peşte crud. CLT.3.SG.M. eat.3.sg. DOM (a) fish raw. ‘S/he eats the fish raw.’ Îl mănâncă crud pe (un) peşte. CLT.3.SG.M. eat.3.sg. raw DOM (a) fish. ‘S/he eats the fish raw.’ L-a trimis pe acest manuscris neterminat. CLT.3.SG.M.-has sent. DOM this manuscript unfinished. ‘S/he sent the manuscript unfinished.’ HINDI Admi machli-ko/*Ø [kacha karaha Man.M.SG. fish.F.SG.-DOM. raw.M.SG. eat.PRES.PRT.M.SG. ‘The man is eating/eats the fish/a specific piece of fish raw.’ (6) SPANISH Juan encontró al libro roto. Juan found.3.sg. DOM.the book broken. ‘Juan has found the book broken.’ Page 2 of 19 hɛ.] be.3.INDIC.PRES.M.SG. MONICA IRIMIA MAY 27TH, 2013 HOW TO BE SPECIFIC SECONDARY PREDICATES IN FORMAL FRAMEWORKS, UTRECHT __________________________________________________________________________________________________ (7) This requirement also encompasses the ECM variant of adjectival predicates: OBLIGATORY DIFFERENTIAL OBJECT MARKING WITH THE ECM VARIANT HINDI-URDU (INDO-IRANIAN) a) admi kitab-ko/*Ø [acha səməjhta hɛ.] man.M.SG. book.DOM. good.M.SG. think.PRES.PRT.M.SG. be.PRES.3.SG. ‘The man considers the/a book good.’ (a book >> consider; *consider>> a book) SPANISH (ROMANCE) b) El professor consideró a/*Ø un estudiante intelligente. The professor considered (a= DOM) a student intelligent. ‘The professor considered a specific student intelligent.’ (a student >> consider) ROMANIAN (ROMANCE) c) Profesorul îl/*Ø consideră pe/*Ø un student deştept. Professor.the CLT.M.SG. considers (pe= DOM) a student smart. ‘The professor considers a specific student smart.’ TURKISH (ALTAIC) d) Ali bir öḡrenc-i-yi/*Ø zeki bulu-yor. Ali a student-EP.V.-DOM/*Ø intelligent find-PRES.PROGR.3.SG. ‘Ali finds/considers a (specific) student intelligent.’ (a student >> find; *find>> a student) ARABIC e) *ʔəʕtəbiru Ta:lib-ən 1.SG.consider student-ACC. f) ʔəʕtəbiru Ta:lib-ən 1.SG.consider student-ACC. ‘I consider a specific student lazy.’ kəsu:l-ən. lazy-ACC. bi-ʕəyni-hi in-same-him kəsu:l-ən. lazy-ACC. As will shown later, the ECM variants differ from infinitives in that the latter do tolerate the non DOM-instantiation of a raised shared argument: (8) a) SPANISH Vimos al avión estrellarse contra la montaña. Saw.1.PL. DOM.the plane crash against the mountain. ‘We saw the plane crash into the mountains.’ b) Vimos estrellarse contra la montaña el avión. Saw.1.PL crash against the mountain the plane. ‘We saw the plane crash into the mountains.’ (Ormazabal and Romero 2013 – if the shared argument stays low, it cannot receive DOM) - - there is strong syntactic evidence that the DOM shared argument is found high, in the domain of the matrix predicate at least under tests like interactions with negation, binding, etc. (Lasnik 1999, Lasnik and Saito 1991, Postal 1974, Ormazabal and Romero 2013, Torrego 2008, etc.). DOM status indicates that such arguments are generated high (no examples seem to be found in which specific/animate objects are in a position below the matrix predicate) Page 3 of 19 MONICA IRIMIA MAY 27TH, 2013 HOW TO BE SPECIFIC SECONDARY PREDICATES IN FORMAL FRAMEWORKS, UTRECHT __________________________________________________________________________________________________ Also, it is not the case that DOM is present whenever further modification of the shared argument is present (via a relative clause, etc.). GOALS OF THE WORK REPORTED HERE: - assemble a large-scale typology of AdjSPs, especially focusing on argument realization and specificity a) identify commonalities b) evaluate parametric differences - put forward a formal analysis that can account for the typological results, and for interactions with other important phenomena such as reconstruction, sentential complementation, evidentials, differential marking, relativization, etc. - investigate how diachronic data provides support/disconfirms a unified analysis PROPOSAL: the DOM restriction is imposed by the functional structure around the matrix and secondary predicates A. the matrix predicate of ECM variants contains a v specified with evidential semantics o typological survey shows the required overt presence of evidential markers in such instances lexical evidential head is merged above the matrix predicate the presence of the evidential explains not only the cross-linguistic split weak/strong (DOM), but also other crucial properties of such configurations o obligatory entailments of direct/indirect evidence B. the DOM restriction on objects with depictives results from a presupposition of partitivity in the depictive functional head introducing the SP (Motut 2012) a complex predicate analysis, involving the Multiple Checking operation can account for the restriction The current account also provides strong support for DOM analyses (e.g, López 2012) which require both syntactic conditions (a position above V) and semantic principles to derive specificity and differential marking, while avoiding the problems with scrambling for the ECM variants. II. DOM, SPECIFICITY AND SCOPE - The special status of shared arguments with adjectival predicates has been noticed since - at least Williams (1983) The question: why do shared arguments with depictives show similar types of restrictions? A) WILLIAMS’ (1983) PUZZLE unexpected lack of weak (non-specific) readings of indefinite shared arguments with nonadjunct adjectival predicates (AdjPs) under intensional predicates Page 4 of 19 MONICA IRIMIA MAY 27TH, 2013 HOW TO BE SPECIFIC SECONDARY PREDICATES IN FORMAL FRAMEWORKS, UTRECHT __________________________________________________________________________________________________ (9) SHARED ARGUMENTS OF ADJSPs MUST BE SPECIFIC ENGLISH a) A student seems sick. = A specific student seems sick. # Some student or other seems sick. b) The professor considers a student intelligent. = The professor considers a specific student intelligent. # The professor considers some student or other intelligent. JAPANESE (ALTAIC) c) Aru seito ga byooki rasii. (information obtained by hearsay) Some student NOM. sick seems. = ‘A specific student seems sick.’/ # ‘Some student or other seems sick.’ d) Sono kyoozyu-wa aru seito-o titeki-to minas-u. that professor-TOP. some student-ACC. intelligent-COMP. consider-PRES. = ‘That professor considers a specific student intelligent.’ # ‘That professor considers some student or other intelligent.’ FINNISH (FINO-UGRIC) e) Miehet pitävät oppilaita ilois-i-na. Man.PL.NOM. consider-PRES.3.PL. student-PART.PL. happy-PL-ESS. ‘The men consider the/ specific students happy. (exception to the ACC case requirement) - Williams (1983) took these observations to be crucial when deciding the correct syntactic analysis of ‘consider + Adj. predicate’ sequences (10) The professor considers a student intelligent. a) Small clause b) Complex predicate (one possible structure) (Ignoring further structure inside the SC) The professor considers [a student smart]SC The professor ___ a student [considers smart]CPXPRED ……..VP ru V SC g ei considers a student intelligent …… v ei vCOMPLX. V ei DP V a student ei V AdjP g g considers intelligent Starting with the beginning: why are the readings in (9) problematic? AdjSPs contrast with infinitives, which allow both specific and non-specific readings: Page 5 of 19 MONICA IRIMIA MAY 27TH, 2013 HOW TO BE SPECIFIC SECONDARY PREDICATES IN FORMAL FRAMEWORKS, UTRECHT __________________________________________________________________________________________________ (11) ENGLISH A student seems to be sick. = A specific student seems to be sick. = A non-specific student seems to be sick. [i.e., Some student or other seems to be sick] May (1977, 1985): interpretational distinctions of the type seen in (11) can be explained structurally. The classic pattern: (12) ENGLISH Some politician is likely to address John’s constituency. (May 1985) [12] may be taken as asserting either that (i) there is a politician, e.g. Rockefeller, who is likely to address John’s constituency, OR (ii) that it is likely that there is some politician (or other) who will address John’s constituency. (May 1985) (i) = introduces a specific referent = corresponds to a structure in which the DP is (interpreted) above the matrix predicate (is) likely, as shown simplistically in (5) = specificity associated with the wide scope of the shared DP = simplified structure in (13) (13) ………… ei a student ei seems sick wide scope reading A student seems sick. [A (specific) student seems sick] a student >> seems (ii) = non-specific reading = corresponds to a structure in which the DP is read off a configuration in which the DP is below the predicate (is) likely, most probably inside the infinitival clause, as in (9) = a process of covert quantifier lowering inside/adjoined to the non-finite clause allows the reconstruction of the (existential) quantifier in the embedded domain. (14) …. ei Some politician ………… ei is likely IPINFINITIVAL ei Narrow scope reading [Some politician or other is likely to address John’s constituency] Likely >> some politician to address John’s constituency Quantifier lowering Page 6 of 19 MONICA IRIMIA MAY 27TH, 2013 HOW TO BE SPECIFIC SECONDARY PREDICATES IN FORMAL FRAMEWORKS, UTRECHT __________________________________________________________________________________________________ Shared arguments with AdjSPs do NOT allow the narrow scope reading with non-modal AdjSPs (i.e., a structure in which the DP would be below the matrix predicate seem): (15) ei a student a student >> seem WIDE SCOPE OF QUANTIFIER …….. ei seem S(MALL) C(LAUSE) ei <a student> sick Reading not possible! Seem >> a student NARROW SCOPE OF QUANTIFIER (EXISTENTIAL READING) Williams (1983): the absence of narrow scope (existential) readings is to be attributed to the fact that secondary predicates are NOT small clauses (contra Stowell 1981, 1983, Chomsky 1981, etc.) the correct structure for secondary predicates, instead, should be along the lines in (16), following Williams (1983): (16) …ei a student …….. ei seem sick ei a student ei consider intelligent MORE PUZZLES B) PUZZLE OF THE ABSENT SQUIRE (Matushansky 2002, Toivonen and Asudeh 2012, etc.) the speaker must establish at least ‘mental contact’ with the ‘referent’ of the shared argument; in many cases, visual, direct contact is obligatory: (17) I walked into the squire’s room when he wasn’t there. I saw medicine bottles, Kleenexes, and smelled a foul, sickly stench. a. The squire seemed to be sick./ b. # The squire seemed sick. II. PROPOSAL: - the shared argument is introduced high, above the matrix predicate. Just like other constructions involving verbs of perception and cognition, a v specified with evidential semantics is present in the structure: - The high position of the shared argument, as well as the evidential component account for the DOM as well as ‘specificity’ Page 7 of 19 MONICA IRIMIA MAY 27TH, 2013 HOW TO BE SPECIFIC SECONDARY PREDICATES IN FORMAL FRAMEWORKS, UTRECHT __________________________________________________________________________________________________ (18) ……ei v EVID AspP ei Shared argument Asp ei a student Asp V ei V g SP consider intelligent this hypothesis receives support from correlations holding in the domain of secondary predicates, as well as in the area of evidentiality EVIDENTIALITY: encodes the nature of the evidence supporting a specific statement (Squartini 2001, 2005, Aikhenvald 2004, Aikhenvald and Dixon 2003, Speas 2008, etc.) Direct Attested Types of Evidence Reported Auditory Other sensory Second hand Third hand Folklore (hearsay) Indirect Inferring Results Reasoning FIGURE 1. EVIDENTIAL TAXONOMY (WILLETT 1988:57) interactions and correlations with AdjSPs: a) in languages in which certain evidentiality types are morphologically encoded, AdjSPs can only be merged with those intensional predicates that accept evidentiality marking: - robust facts from Romanian (20) – (25) where only indirect evidentiality (Squartini 2004, Irimia 2009, 2010, 2013) is morphologically overt, constructed via the so-called presumptive mood Page 8 of 19 MONICA IRIMIA MAY 27TH, 2013 HOW TO BE SPECIFIC SECONDARY PREDICATES IN FORMAL FRAMEWORKS, UTRECHT __________________________________________________________________________________________________ - (20) a) b) similarly to other languages, the presumptive mood is not possible with impersonal predicates (20a) vs. (20 b)3, which take default (3 SG.) agreement: ROMANIAN Copi-i-i se pare [că Child-PL.-the.PL. SE.IMPERS. seem.3.SG.PRES. that plecat]CP. left. LIT. ‘The children, it seems that they have left’ ‘It seems that the children have left.’ *Copi-i-i s-ar Child-PL.-the.PL. SE.IMPERS.-COND=IE.HRS. 3.SG.PRES. [că <copiii> au plecat]CP. that children have.3.PL. plecat. ‘There is hearsay that it seemed that the children have left.’ <copiii> au have.3.PL. fi be părut seemed if se pare is replaced with the personal/control form pare, which obligatorily agrees with the subject, the IE is well-formed (20a and 20b vs. 21 and 22). See also Rizzi (1978, 1986) (21) Copi-i-i par [că au plecat/mâncat]CP. Child-PL.-the.PL. seem.3.PL.PRES. that have.3.PL. left/eaten. LIT. ‘The children seem that they left/The children seem that they have eaten.’ (22) Copi-i-i or fi părut Child-PL.-the.PL. seem.3.PL.PRES.IE. be seemed plecat/mâncat]CP. left/eaten. ‘It appears that the children seemed that they have left/eaten. - au have.3.PL. Adj.Ps cannot be constructed from the impersonal/raising ‘seem' as shown in Alboiu (2002), Cornilescu (2004), Hill (2000) etc., the impersonal variant of seem involves raising from an embedded finite/non-finite clause, while in the control version the (shared) argument is base generated in the domain of the matrix perception intensional predicate (see also Alboiu and Hill 2012 for similar diachronic remarks) (23) *Copi-i-i se pare Child-PL.-the.PL. SE seem.3.SG.PRES. LIT. ‘The children it seems happy.’ (24) Copi-i-i par Child-PL.-the.PL. seem.3.PL.PRES. ‘The children seem happy.’ 3 [că that [<copiii> bucuroşi]SC. happy.M.PL. bucuroşi. happy.M.PL. Examples in (16) illustrate A/A´ movement across a finite domain; see more in Alboiu (2002), etc. Page 9 of 19 MONICA IRIMIA MAY 27TH, 2013 HOW TO BE SPECIFIC SECONDARY PREDICATES IN FORMAL FRAMEWORKS, UTRECHT __________________________________________________________________________________________________ (25) Copi-i-i or fi părând Child-PL.-the.PL. INFER.3.PL. be seem.IMPERF.PRES. ‘I infer that the children seem/look happy.’ bucuroşi. happy.M.PL. it is a stable cross-linguistic tendency of AdjP to be constructed from the control (copy raising) variants only (in languages in which perception predicates alternate between the two configurations). See also Iatridou (1990), Toivonen and Asudeh (2012), Landau 2009, Potsdam and Runner (2001), Rogers (1971) evidentials do not normally tolerate non-specific indefinites as objects under the scope of the evidence, as seen in examples (26) from Romanian: (26) - - ROMANIAN O pisică ar fi dormind sub pat. A cat COND.=IE.HRS. be sleep.IMPERF.PRES. under bed. a) ‘There is hearsay/people say that a specific cat is sleeping under the bed.’ b) # ‘There is hearsay that some cat or other is sleeping under the bed.’ evidentials have been argued to require widest scope; this restriction is nevertheless not universal; crucially Japanese is an exception (see McCready and Ogata 2009 for discussion from Japanese) see example in (27), in which the negation cannot take scope over the IE and the SpecIndef: (27) ROMANIAN O pisică n-ar fi dormind sub pat. A cat not- COND.=IE.HRS. be sleep.IMPERF.PRES. under bed. IE > NEG; SpecINDEF > NEG a) There is hearsay that a specific cat (or one cat) is not sleeping under the bed. b) *There isn’t hearsay that a specific cat is sleeping under the bed. c) *There is hearsay that some cat or other is not sleeping under the bed. ARE NON-SPECIFIC READINGS EVER POSSIBLE? - Yes, but only when the AdjSP is a modal adjective: - the weak indefinite readings are obtained when he modal adjective takes scope over the shared argument (28) ENGLISH The president considers a senator necessary. = the president considers a specific senator necessary = the president considers some senator or other necessary DEPICTIVES: - in many languages depictives show overt dedicated morphology - many analyses derive these facts by assuming that depictives contain a functional projection specified with ‘overlap’ semantics (Geuder 2002, et al.) Motut (2012): Page 10 of 19 MONICA IRIMIA MAY 27TH, 2013 HOW TO BE SPECIFIC SECONDARY PREDICATES IN FORMAL FRAMEWORKS, UTRECHT __________________________________________________________________________________________________ - (29) Dep employs the part-of relation, ≤, reminiscent of the part-of relation used in the semantics of partitives. Following Ladusaw (1982), the partitive constraint explains the restrictions on NP complements of partitive of in (29). Individuals can be group individuals, like defnite plurals, but bare plurals and mass nouns do not denote individuals; therefore, these NPs are not felicitous as NP complements [of part]. [ofpart] : λx.λP.λy[P(y) ˄ y < x] The Partitive Constraint can be stated ... by requiring that the NP in a partitive phrase always denotes an individual" (Ladusaw 1982:238) a) Two of the beers b) *two of beer (30) c) d) *two of beers some of the beer Depictives and shared arguments: a) John drank the beer warm. b) ??/#John drank beer warm. c) ??/# John drank beers warm. = the evidential component, as well as the presupposition introduced by the Dep can explain the strong/specific readings of the shared arguments = the observation that DOM are always high arguments argues in favor of a complex predicate analysis But, if the shared argument is not introduced locally, a mechanism for constructing complex predicates is needed: - The account proposed here elaborates on the process of Multiple Agree as discussed in Hiraiwa (2004) with respect to derivationally simultaneous argumental agreement (31) MULTIPLE AGREE (multiple feature checking) with a single probe is a single simultaneous syntactic operation; AGREE applies to all the matched goals at the same derivational point derivationally simultaneously. (Hiraiwa 2004, page 38) (32) MULTIPLE AGREE (P, ∀G) Agree is a derivationally simultaneous operation AGREE (P, ∀G) P > G1 > .......> Gn (33) THE PRINCIPLE OF SIMULTANEITY Apply operations simultaneously at a probe level. Page 11 of 19 (Hiraiwa 2004, 2.9) MONICA IRIMIA MAY 27TH, 2013 HOW TO BE SPECIFIC SECONDARY PREDICATES IN FORMAL FRAMEWORKS, UTRECHT __________________________________________________________________________________________________ - this paper extends the Multiple Agree operation to the domain of complex predicates: (34) MULTIPLE AGREE AND COMPLEX PREDICATE FORMATION: - Value the Pred (and other uninterpretable) features of (two) predicates - Process realized simultaneously and initiated by a functional projection endowed with the capacity of valuing and transmitting the relevant features of more than one predicate (as in 34) (35) - PRINCIPLE OF COMPLEX PREDICATE FORMATION [uPredicate/uφ] features of more than one predicate in the same phase are checked derivationally simultaneously by a probe which can establish an AGREE relation with a goal containing the relevant interpretable [φ] features. Multiple agreement initiated by a functional projection vCMPLX. Checking initiated at v, instead of T (see also Béjar and Rezac 2009), in order to explain the common crosslinguistic object agreement patterns with such constructions, as well as their complex predicate nature (anti-reconstruction patterns in the interpretation of shared arguments, binding effects, etc.). (36) vCMPLX > G1 > ....> Pred1> ........Predn MULTIPLE AGREE OPERATION, PREDICATES INTO A COMPLEX responsible for THE INTEGRATION OF INDEPENDENT ………. qp vCMPLX ei [u CMPLX ] Shared argument ei Sit0 Vconsider Value u CMPLX 1.Agree wp V DEP Set 1 Set 2 ….. ei 2. Initiate Multiple Agree DEP a uγ uγ ei u # u # a √ …. ….. [uPred] [uγ] [u#] [uCase]….. MORE ON THE DIACHRONIC EVIDENCE FOR AN EVIDENTIAL/ COMPLEX PREDICATE ANALYSIS Indo-European reconstruction: intensional predicates like consider with small clauses are accompanied by a marker with apparent evidential function (Jasanoff 1978 ) Page 12 of 19 MONICA IRIMIA MAY 27TH, 2013 HOW TO BE SPECIFIC SECONDARY PREDICATES IN FORMAL FRAMEWORKS, UTRECHT __________________________________________________________________________________________________ Hindi-Urdu dialects have developed a variant of AdjSPs in which the AdjSP must bear parasitic agreement covalued with the matrix predicate (Irimia 2013): (37) HINDI - URDU laṛke puraanii/*puraana kitaab-ko]DP boy.M.Pl. old.F.Sg./old.M.Sg. book.F.Sg.-Specf. acche/*/??acchi/*/??accha samajhte good.M.Pl.//F.Sg.//Dft. think.Pres.Prt.M.Pl. ‘The boys consider the old book good.’ (i) Subject [SC Objectφi AdjSPφi/Dft] V (ii) Subjectφj [SC? Objectφi AdjSPφj] Vφj . be.Pres.3.Pl. (Expected agreement pattern) (Dialectal variety of Hindi-Urdu) Examples like cannot be derived under a minimalist implementation of agreement (Chomsky 2001, 2004), if a small clause structure is assumed Moreover, they also demonstrate that Adj.Ps cannot involve the presence of PRO (see also Landau); PRO would block parasitic agreement between the predicates (Bhatt 2005, Bošković 1997) fluctuating nature of objects (Pintzuk 2005, Pintzuk and Taylor 2004, and variability (Longobardi and Giorgi 1991, Longobardi 2001); however, diachronically nonfluctuating DOM marking and syntax in Hindi-Urdu (Kachru 2006, etc.) and Turkish shared arguments with AdjSPs (see Taylan 2001) Some observations from Farsi: verb ‘think’ could select an AdjSP and an evidential marking. Recategorization of the primary predicate to selecting an infinitive, but the evidential appears to be lost (Irimia, in progress) THANK YOU! Comments are highly appreciated REFERENCES: Abusch, Dorit. 1994. The scope of indefinites. 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[Few of the students] (c) Three kids liked snakes Three of the kids…] - GENERIC (a) Unicorns eat grass. (b) A unicorn is a mammal. - GENERIC COLLECTIVE (a) Five books are always better than two. TABLE 1: STRONG VS. WEAK READINGS OF NPs APPENDIX B - LIST OF LANGUAGES Albanian Albanian Armenian Armenian Basque Celtic Irish Welsh Fino-Ugric Estonian Finnish Hungarian Germanic English Page 18 of 19 MONICA IRIMIA MAY 27TH, 2013 HOW TO BE SPECIFIC SECONDARY PREDICATES IN FORMAL FRAMEWORKS, UTRECHT __________________________________________________________________________________________________ German Icelandic Hellenic Greek Indo Aryan Hindi-Urdu Iranian Persian Kartvelian Georgian Romance French Italian Latin Romanian Spanish Japanese Korean Mayan Q’anjob’al Tzotzil Salish (restricted examples) Halkomelem Sino-Tibetan Cantonese Chinese Mandarin Chinese Balto - Slavic Russian Lithuanian Bulgarian Polish Czech Ukrainian Sino-Tibetan Mandarin Chinese Cantonese Chinese Thai Turkic Turkish Page 19 of 19
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