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”Disagreeing” doubling det

Josefsson, Gunlög LU (2012) In Working Papers in Scandinavian Syntax 90.
Abstract
In this paper I discuss doubling with the neuter pronominal det ‘it’ in Swedish. Det may double common gender and/or plural noun phrases too, which gives rise to what looks like disagreement.

The proposed analysis takes as its point of departure so-called pancake-sentences, which are sentences with a common gender and/or plural noun phrase subject, but where the predicative adjective agrees in the neuter, non-plural. The subject in this construction has a SUBSTANCE or an EVENT reading. There are reasons to believe that the subject of pancake-sentences is headed by a null, neuter classifier, devoid of the feature number. The absence of number explains the reading of the subject, as well as the agreement pattern. The analysis of... (More)
In this paper I discuss doubling with the neuter pronominal det ‘it’ in Swedish. Det may double common gender and/or plural noun phrases too, which gives rise to what looks like disagreement.

The proposed analysis takes as its point of departure so-called pancake-sentences, which are sentences with a common gender and/or plural noun phrase subject, but where the predicative adjective agrees in the neuter, non-plural. The subject in this construction has a SUBSTANCE or an EVENT reading. There are reasons to believe that the subject of pancake-sentences is headed by a null, neuter classifier, devoid of the feature number. The absence of number explains the reading of the subject, as well as the agreement pattern. The analysis of pancake-sentences is carried over to one type of det-doubling: The antecedent of the doubling det is a neuter classifier, without number features, heading the doubled phrase. As a consequence, no disagreement is at hand in det-doubling of this type. In the other kind of apparent disagreeing det-doubling, the antecedent is not a linguistic entity, but a discourse element. (Less)
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pancake sentences, neuter, disagreement, classifier, pronominal doubling, Conversational Entity
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Working Papers in Scandinavian Syntax
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90
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24 pages
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Centre for Languages and Literature, Lund University
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1100-097X
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English
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The proposed analysis takes as its point of departure so-called pancake-sentences, which are sentences with a common gender and/or plural noun phrase subject, but where the predicative adjective agrees in the neuter, non-plural. The subject in this construction has a SUBSTANCE or an EVENT reading. There are reasons to believe that the subject of pancake-sentences is headed by a null, neuter classifier, devoid of the feature number. The absence of number explains the reading of the subject, as well as the agreement pattern. The analysis of pancake-sentences is carried over to one type of det-doubling: The antecedent of the doubling det is a neuter classifier, without number features, heading the doubled phrase. As a consequence, no disagreement is at hand in det-doubling of this type. In the other kind of apparent disagreeing det-doubling, the antecedent is not a linguistic entity, but a discourse element.}},
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  series       = {{Working Papers in Scandinavian Syntax}},
  title        = {{”Disagreeing” doubling det}},
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