WOPiG, Leipzig October 2013 Cyclic Spell-Out and Agreement Options in Raising 2. EPP YOUSSEF HADDAD AND SUSI WURMBRAND University of Florida and University of Connecticut FA vs. PA—Ways to satisfy the EPP EPP Typology 1. Introduction Standard Arabic (SA) Agreement pattern • • (1) Preverbal subjects: full agreement [FA] (Mohammad 1990, 2000, Aoun et al. 1994, Ouhalla 1994, Benmamoun 2000, Soltan 2007) Postverbal subjects: partial agreement [PA] (only gender; default singular) a. l-fataya:t-u qaraʔ-na the-girls-NOM read-3.F.PL l-dars-a the-lesson-ACC F(ull )A(greement) b. qaraʔ-at read-3.F. SG l-dars-a the-lesson-ACC P(artial )A(greement) l-fataya:t-u the-girls-NOM Agreement in raising and control constructions (2) yarkudˁ na run.3.F.PL fi l-malʕab in the-playground b. badaʔat l-tˁ a:liba:t-u fajʔatan [ yarkudˁ na started.3.F. SG the-students. F -NOM suddenly [ run.3.F.PL fi l-malʕab in the-playground c. badaʔat started.3.F. SG [ tarkudˁ u [ run.3.F. SG l-tˁ a:liba:t-u the-students. F -NOM fi in l-malʕab ] the-playground ] d. badaʔna started.3.F.PL [ tarkudˁ u [ run.3.F. SG l-tˁ a:liba:t-u the-students. F -NOM fi in l-malʕab ] the-playground ] (3) a. *badaʔna started.3.F.PL [ yarkudˁ na [ run.3.F.PL l-tˁ a:liba:t-u the-students. F -NOM ] ] l-tˁ a:liba:t-u the-students. F -NOM badaʔna started.3.F.PL c. l-tˁ a:liba:t-u the-students. F -NOM yarkudˁ na run.3.F.PL • • • • Optional VSO language—T can be valued either by subject DP or v (this is reminiscent of Pesetsky and Torrego’s 2001 claim that both T and the subject in Spec,TP can move to check a feature on C in English) Special assumption regarding v in SA: has only a gender feature. In VSO order, v+V moves to T and values T’s Gender feature; other features default. a. Difference between FA and PA in general? Why/how are PA and FA possible with V1 in (2c-d)? Why is FA with V2 impossible in (3a)? Why is FA with V1 impossible in (3b)? Backward raising/control account; agreement as evidence for movement and phases Agreement pattern derived by cyclic spell-out and PF copy choice S—VFA b. TP 3 DP T’ iϕ: 3.F.PL 3 T vP uϕ: 3.F.PL 3 DP v’ iϕ: 3.F.PL 3 v+V … uϕ: F ] ] *V1.FA-DP This talk • • • *V2.FA *all other combinations a. DP V1.FA V2.FA b. V1.PA DP V2.FA c. V1.PA V2.PA DP d. V1.FA EPP: ϕ-features on v and T v: ϕ-features which are valued by the subject T: ϕ-features valued by the subject DP (English) or by moved v(+V) (Greek, Irish); see Alexiadou and Anagnostopoulou (2001) for the latter Since v is valued by the subject DP, in both cases, T agrees with the subject. Valuation between two uFs is possible (see above; also Pesetsky and Torrego 2007) Standard Arabic (4) [OK if subject is extraposed (different intonational pattern; long pause before subject)] b. *badaʔna started.3.F.PL • • • • all: ‘The female students started to run.’ a. • • • VPA—S TP 3 v+V T’ uϕ: F 3 T vP uϕ: F .3.SG 3 DP v’ iϕ: 3.F.PL 3 v … uϕ: F *VFA » S: no T-to-C; PF must choose the higher copy (unless there is a PF reason not to). *S » VPA: if there is further subject movement in (4b), this movement must be covert. PF restriction in SA: At PF, the higher copy must be realized, unless this leads to the order DP—V.PA, in which case the lower copy must be realized. 3. Back to raising constructions Phases in raising/control infinitives (Alexiadou et al. To appear, Wurmbrand 2013a, b) (5) a. b. [TP SUBJ T [vP=PHASE SUBJ … [XP=PHASE SUBJ SA: = (2a) = (2b) 2 [vP SUBJ = N/A …]]]]] = (2c,d) (2) badaʔna started.3.F.PL a. l-tˁ a:liba:t-u the-students. F -NOM yarkudˁ na run.3.F.PL b. badaʔat l-tˁ a:liba:t-u fajʔatan yarkudˁ na started.3.F. SG the-students. F -NOM suddenly run.3.F.PL • Spell-out of embedded TP: Linearization is fixed to the order V2»DP (similar to Fox and Pesetsky’s 2005, cyclic linearization); all further movement of the subject must be covert. TP 3 {SUBJ/v+V } T’ (2a)/(2b) 3 T vP 3 SUBJ the students.F phase v’ 3 v uϕ: F VP 3 V start phase TP 3 SUBJ the students.F T’ # V2.PA SUBJ 4. Subject movement vs. no movement constructions Motivation for subject movement FA requires subject DP movement PF must choose higher copy (3) *badaʔna started.3.F.PL a. b. *badaʔna started.3.F.PL (2) • [ yarkudˁ na [ run.3.F.PL l-tˁ a:liba:t-u the-students. F -NOM l-tˁ a:liba:t-u the-students. F -NOM ] ] *V2.FA yarkudˁ na run.3.F.PL *V1.FA-DP c. badaʔat started.3.F. SG [ tarkudˁ u [ run.3.F. SG l-tˁ a:liba:t-u the-students. F -NOM ] ] d. badaʔna started.3.F.PL [ tarkudˁ u [ run.3.F. SG l-tˁ a:liba:t-u the-students. F -NOM ] ] TPEMBEDDED 3 SUBJ T’ iϕ: 3.F.PL 3 v+V T’ uϕ: F 3 T vP uϕ: F .3.SG 3 SUBJ iϕ: 3.F.PL i. ii. iii. iv. v. vi. v’ 3 v … uϕ: F 3 • Backward control: matrix verb/v is thematic—it must merge with a DP to establish an argument-of relations (see Hornstein 1999, et seq., Polinsky and Potsdam [P&T] 2002, 2006, 2012, Wurmbrand 2013b) EPP: ϕ-feature valuation of T; for agreement with the matrix verb (whether PA or FA), the subject DP must move at least up to matrix Spec,vP (Position ): (6) • • (7) v moves to check T’s EPP/ϕ PA on embedded V+T SUBJ undergoes edge movement (see below for motivation) Transfer, copy choice PF: must realize lower copy Higher copy remains active in syntax [TP SUBJ [vP SUBJ …]]]]] Embedded clauses in SA raising/control are finite (morphologically imperfective + indicative or subjunctive); Case deficiency not motivated Embedded clause is the same in NOC cases where the matrix and embedded subjects are different—embedded subject licensed in embedded clause (no movement can take place). a. qarrara Sami:r ʔan decided.3.M.SG Samir to ‘Samir decided for Leila to travel.’ tusa:fira travel.3.F.SG Layla Leila b. *qarrarat Sami:r ʔan decided.3.F.SG Samir to ‘Samir decided for Leila to travel.’ tusa:fira travel.3.F.SG Layla Leila c. • T [vP=PHASE SUBJ … [TP=PHASE SUBJ qarrara Sami:r ʔan tusa:fira decided.3.M.SG Samir to travel.3.F.SG ‘Samir decided for the students to travel.’ l-tˁ a:liba:t-u the-students. F -NOM If the embedded subject is fully licensed in the embedded clause, movement only takes place when the matrix v or T requires a subject. 4 (8) Last Resort [Bošković 2007: 610] X undergoes movement iff without the movement, the structure will crash. • This predicts that subject movement does not occur in contexts where the matrix verb does not require a subject and T has no EPP feature (Haddad 2012). • • • Crucially, broad subjects cannot agree with the verb. To show this, consider first a verb—be.about—which is ambiguous between raising (no movement/agreement) and control (movement/agreement) As in (2), the V1—V2—DP order allows FA or PA on V1 (but V2 must involve PA); and the DP—V1—V2 order requires FA on both verbs. (11) Control: ‘The female students were about to succeed.’ Raising: ‘It was about to happen that the female students would succeed.’ Raising verbs (preliminary) • • • v is present in passive/unaccusative contexts as well and those vPs are phases (see Legate 2003, 2012, Sauerland (2003), Alexiadou et al. To appear, Wurmbrand 2013a, b) Raising v is thematically underspecified—v does not introduce an agent; but ϕ-features still possible: certain raising verbs come with fully underspecified v; others with v with ϕ-features Similarly, T can be inserted with or without ϕ-features (see Haddad and Wurmbrand in prep for all possible combinations and classes of raising and control verbs). Raising verbs without phi-features on v and T • • (9) There are no features to value in the matrix clause (no thematic relation, no phi-valuation) Since the embedded subject is licensed in the embedded clause, and there is nothing in the matrix clause to be valued by the subject, movement does not take place; the matrix verb is spelled out at PF with default 3.M.SG. [Default agreement on the matrix verb has no effect for agreement on the embedded verb (DP»V2 orders must involve FA, V2»DP orders PA).] yajib ʔan must.3.M.SG to ‘The students must succeed.’ tanjaħa succeed.3.F. SG l-tˁ a:liba:t-u the-students. F -NOM b. *tajib/yajibna ʔan must.3.F .SG/must.3.F.PL to tanjaħa succeed.3.F. SG l-tˁ a:liba:t-u the-students. F -NOM a. c. d. • *yajib l-tˁ a:liba:t-u must.3.M.SG the-students. F -NOM yajib ʕ ala l-tˁ a:liba:t-i must.3.M.SG on the-students. F -GEN b. *l-tˁ a:liba:t-u yajibna the-students. F -NOM must.3.F.PL ʔawʃakna [ (ʔan) tanjaħ(u/a) l-tˁ a:liba:t-u ] were.about.to.3.F.PL [ (to) succeed.3.F. SG the-students. F -NOM ] Control c. ʔawʃaka [ (ʔan) tanjaħ(u/a) l-tˁ a:liba:t-u ] was.about.to. 3.M.SG [ (to) succeed.3.F. SG the-students. F -NOM ] Raising d. l-tˁ a:liba:t-u the-students. F -NOM ʔawʃakna were.about.to.3.F.PL (ʔan) (to) yanjaħna succeed.3.F.PL Control e. l-tˁ a:liba:t-u the-students. F -NOM ʔawʃaka (ʔan) was.about.to. 3.M.SG (to) yanjaħna succeed.3.F.PL Raising When the subject occurs initially, it is ambiguous between a moved subject (control) or a base-generated broad subject (raising) Broad subjects can co-occur with a ‘true’ subject, but agreement with a broad subject is prohibited, even when it is the only DP preceding the verb (12) all: ‘As for the students, their colleagues were about to succeed.’ a. ʔan to yanjaħna succeed.3.F.PL c. l-tˁa:liba:t-u ʔawʃaka ʔan yanjaħa *l-tˁa:liba:t-u ʔawʃakna ʔan yanjaħa zumala:ʔ u-hunna to succeed.3.M. SG classmates. M -NOM-their the-students.F-NOM was.about.to-3.M.SG to the-students.F-NOM were.about.to.3.F.PL l-tˁa:liba:t-u the-students.F-NOM zumala:ʔ u-hunna succeed.3.M. SG ʔawʃaku: zumala:ʔ u-hunna classmates. M -NOM-their ʔan yanjaħu: classmates. M -NOM-their was.about.to-3.M.PL C/to succeed.3.M.PL Summary • • • • Control contexts: always require movement (or external Merge of another NP if NOC is possible); agreement is obligatory Raising contexts: can involve movement (if v and/or T require an NP) or no movement (v/T lack ϕ-features—default agreement arises) Further possible combinations: see Haddad and Wurmbrand, in prep. Crucially: Whenever there is subject movement from the embedded clause, some or all of the agreement patterns in (2) arise ((2a,b) are the most attested, (2c) is less common, and (2d) is the least common/most marked) The analysis proposed here has derived the agreement patterns via a cyclic spell-out derivation and the phase structure below. ʔan yanjaħna to succeed.3.F.PL • ʔan yanjaħna to succeed.3.F.PL (13) 5 b. b. The subject can only occur in the matrix clause as a broad subject (Doron and Heycock 1999, Alexopoulou et al. 2003). l-tˁ a:liba:t-u yajib the-students. F -NOM must.3.M.SG Control yanjaħna succeed.3.F.PL Other non-agreeing verbs: yastaħiil ‘be.impossible’, yumkin ‘be.possible’, yustaħsan ‘be.preferred’—all of these verbs are compatible as impersonal verbs (if there is a subject, it must occur as a PP like (9d)). (10) a. • ʔawʃakat [ (ʔan) tanjaħ(u/a) l-tˁ a:liba:t-u ] were.about.to.3.F. SG [ (to) succeed.3.F. SG the-students. F -NOM ] ʔan to Excursus: Broad subjects and agreement • • a. [TP SUBJ T [vP=PHASE SUBJ … [TP=PHASE SUBJ 6 [vP SUBJ …]]]]] 5. Towards a typology of backward raising • Other languages that allow backward raising/control: Adyghe (P&T 2002, 2006, 2012), Tagalog (Wurmbrand 2013b) (14) a. axe-r [ axe-me pj"sme-r a-tx"-new ] they-ABS [ they- ERG letter-ABS 3PL.ERG-write-INF ] ‘They began to write a letter.’ ø-fjež’aʁe-x 3ABS-began-3PL.ABS [P&P 2012: 78; simplified] b. axe-r [ axe-me pj"sme-r a-tx"-new ] they- ABS [ they-ERG letter-ABS 3PL.ERG-write-INF ] ‘They began to write a letter.’ ø-fjež’aʁe-x 3ABS-began-3PL.ABS [P&P 2012: 78; simplified] (15) a. b. 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