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Abstract
Typological research on agreement systems recognises syntactic and semantic agreement as the two main types of agreement, with the former considered to be more canonical. An examination of different manifestations of semantic agreement found in the Gújjolaay Eegimaa1 noun class (non sex based gender) system is proposed in this paper from the perspective of Canonical Typology, and the findings are related to the Agreement Hierarchy predictions. The results show that Eegimaa has hybrid nouns and constructional mismatches which trigger semantically based agreement mismatches, both in gender and number between controller nouns and certain targets. This paper shows that Eegimaa has two main subtypes of semantic agreement: human semantic agreement and locative semantic agreement. The data and the analysis proposed here reveal novel results according to which these two types of semantic agreement behave differently in relation to the Agreement Hierarchy.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 585-627 |
| Number of pages | 42 |
| Journal | Studies in Language |
| Volume | 43 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 18 Nov 2019 |
Bibliographical note
© This is an author-produced version of the published paper. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher’s self-archiving policy. Further copying may not be permitted; contact the publisher for details.Keywords
- Agreement
- Gender
- Syntactic agreement
- semantic agreement
- Noun class
- Lexical hybrids
Projects
- 1 Finished
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Matches and mismatches in nominal morphology and agreement: Learning from the acquisition of Eegimaa
Brown, D. (Principal investigator) & Vihman, M. (Co-investigator)
1/04/17 → 31/03/20
Project: Research project (funded) › Research