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Agreement is not an essential ingredient of finiteness: Evidence from impersonal sentences in Norwegian dialects and in English

Åfarli, Tor Anders
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http://hdl.handle.net/11250/2499117
Date
2016
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10.1075/la.231.06afa
Abstract
I argue in this article that agreement is not an essential ingredient of T/finiteness. Using the mechanism of valuation of unvalued features, I argue that unvalued agreement features in T only exist if there is visible subject – verb agreement in the language/dialect. Correspondingly, I argue that unvalued agreement features in participles only exist if there is visible subject – participle agreement. The likelihood that these assumptions are correct is demonstrated through a comparative analysis of expletive subjects and agreement relations in impersonal constructions in Norwegian dialects and in English.
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John Benjamins Publishing Company

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