In:Past Participle Agreement: A study on the grammaticalization of formal features
Jorge Vega Vilanova
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 265] 2020
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Published online: 10 December 2020
https://doi.org/10.1075/la.265.toc
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Table of contents
Acknowledgements
XI
List of abbreviations and symbols
XIII
List of tables
XVII
List of figures
XIX
Introduction
1
Part OnePast participle agreement in Romance languages: General properties and previous accounts
9
Chapter 1.General remarks on past participle agreement
13
1.1Past participle agreement in French and Italian
13
1.1.1Basic data
13
1.1.2Descriptive generalizations
20
1.2Previous accounts
23
1.2.1Traditional approaches
23
1.2.2Some sociolinguistic and stylistic considerations
25
1.2.3Semantic/pragmatic approaches
25
1.2.4Syntactic approaches: Position, Spec-Head relations and AgrO
27
1.2.5More recent accounts from a minimalist perspective
34
Chapter 2.Optionality and language change: PPA as an interface phenomenon
39
2.1Optionality: Competing grammars and interface effects
40
2.2Interface effects on PPA
46
2.2.1Information structure–syntax interface
46
2.2.2Semantics/pragmatics–syntax interface
48
2.3Object phenomena related to specificity
55
2.3.1Object movement, CLD and DOM
55
2.3.2PPA and object movement
59
2.3.3PPA and DOM
60
2.3.4PPA and CLD
61
2.4Interim summary
65
Chapter 3.Past participle agreement in Catalan
67
3.1Peculiarities of PPA in Catalan
68
3.2PPA as a case of doubt: A digression on normative grammar and the realization of
PPA
70
3.3PPA in Catalan: A phenomenon at the interfaces?
76
3.3.1The role of specificity in Catalan PPA
76
3.3.2Correlations among Object phenomena
79
3.3.3Further evidence: Definiteness effects in absolute small clauses
81
Chapter 4.Standpoint and research outlines
85
Part TwoTheoretical background: Universal grammar and language change
89
Chapter 5.On clausal structure and universal grammar
91
5.1Universal grammar and the clausal spine
91
5.2Parameters and variation
95
5.3Formal features and Agree
97
Chapter 6.On grammaticalization and language change
103
6.1Grammaticalization as a descriptive tool
104
6.2Grammaticalization clines: From semantic to formal features
105
6.3Some thoughts on the question of morphology
111
6.4Economy and cyclicity
114
6.5Summarizing
115
Chapter 7.Subject-verb agreement revisited
117
7.1Preliminaries: Some problematic issues
117
7.2Two diachronic stages in subject-verb agreement
119
7.3On the role of case in grammaticalization and language change
126
Part ThreePast participle agreement in Catalan: An empirical study
129
Chapter 8.Data collection
131
8.1Old Catalan (11th–15th centuries) and Decadença
Catalan (16th–19th centuries)
132
8.1.1General methodological issues
132
8.1.2Text selection
133
8.1.3Coded features and coding criteria
135
8.2Modern Catalan
144
8.2.1Target constructions of the test
144
8.2.2Structure of the questionnaire
146
8.2.3Participants
147
Chapter 9.The PPA cycle
149
9.1Old Catalan: Results of the corpus analysis
149
9.1.1The verb
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9.1.2The object noun phrase (NP/DP)
158
9.1.3The clause
165
9.2Results of the questionnaire for Modern Catalan
170
9.2.1Interpolation
170
9.2.2Causatives
171
9.2.3Partitive objects
172
9.2.4Influence of dialect and language dominance
173
9.3Interpreting the data: A PPA-cycle
174
Chapter 10.Diachronic analysis of past participle agreement in Catalan: A grammaticalization approach
179
10.1Additional assumptions
180
10.2Grammaticalizing formal features and avoiding redundancy
182
10.2.1Stage 1: Obligatory agreement
182
10.2.2Stage 2: PPA controlled by specificity?
184
10.2.3Stage 3: Positional rules on agreement
187
10.2.4Stage 4: Optional agreement
189
10.2.5Stage 5: Loss of agreement
190
10.3Outcomes, shortcomings, outlook
191
10.3.1The division between narrow syntax and the interfaces
193
10.3.2Consequences of grammaticalization for accusative case
195
10.3.3Some remarks on unaccusativity
197
10.3.4Open issues
198
Concluding remarks
201
References
207
Appendix I.List of texts used in the Old Catalan corpus
225
Appendix II.Acceptability judgment task for Modern Catalan
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