”Disagreeing” doubling det
(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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- Josefsson, Gunlög LU
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- 2012
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- pancake sentences, neuter, disagreement, classifier, pronominal doubling, Conversational Entity
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- Working Papers in Scandinavian Syntax
- volume
- 90
- pages
- 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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- yes
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