Agreement
Publication date
2022-07-07
Authors
D'Alessandro, Roberta
Editors
Ledgeway, Adam
Maiden, Martin
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Abstract
This chapter offers an overview of the development of the theory of agreement highlighting the major contributions that have been proposed on the basis of the Romance languages. The first part of the chapter follows the analysis of verb–subject agreement from early generative grammar to contemporary syntactic theory. After a short overview of syntactic agreement, the chapter moves on to morphological agreement, discussing among other things the relation between rich agreement and null subjecthood as well as agreement and subject clitics in Romance. The chapter offers a number of examples from standard and non-standard Romance languages.
Keywords
agreement, agree, Spec-Head, participial agreement, subject clitics, rich inflection, null subjects, long-distance agreement, unaccusative subjects, Language and Linguistics
Citation
D'Alessandro, R A G 2022, Agreement. in A Ledgeway & M Maiden (eds), The Cambridge Handbook of Romance Linguistics. Cambridge University Press, pp. 519-543. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108580410.021