The Inverse Agreement Constraint in Uralic Languages
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The Inverse Agreement Constraint in Uralic Languages
Létrehozó:
É. Kiss, Katalin; Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences and Pázmány University
Kiadó:
Pázmány Péter Catholic University
Dátum:
2013-08-25
Tartalmi leírás:
The paper aims to answer the question why object–verb agreement is blocked in Hungarian, Tundra Nenets, Selkup, and Nganasan if the object is a first or second person pronoun. Based on Dalrymple & Nikolaeva (2011), it is argued that object–verb agreement serves (or served historically) to mark the secondary topic status of the object. The gaps in object-verb agreement can be derived from the Inverse Agreement Constraint, a formal, semantically unmotivated constraint observed by Comrie (1980) in Chukchee, Koryak and Kamchadal, forbidding object-verb agreement if the object is more ʻanimate’ than the subject: The paper claims that the Inverse Agreement Constraint is a constrainton information structure. What it requires is that a secondary topic be less topical than the primary topic. An object more topical than the primary topic can only figure as a focus. A version of the constraint can also explain why Hungarian first and second person objects have no accusative suffix, and why accusative marking is optional in the case of objects having a first or second person possessor.
Nyelv:
angol
Típus:
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Peer-reviewed Article
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Forrás:
Finno-Ugric Languages and Linguistics; Vol 2, No 1 (2013)
2063-8825
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