Journal
LINGUISTIC INQUIRY
Volume 50, Issue 3, Pages 527-570Publisher
MIT PRESS
DOI: 10.1162/ling_a_00319
Keywords
agreement; (Upward) Agree; long-distance agreement; case; checking; valuation
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- Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship program
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We argue for a uniformly upward-probing implementation of Agree (Upward Agree, UA), showing that it can account for a wide range of long-distance agreement phenomena, including cases that have been cited as evidence against earlier UA models of phi-agreement. Our core revision to earlier UA approaches is a distinction between checking and valuation: while we maintain that checking is strictly regulated by UA, we propose that valuation depends on a secondary relation of accessibility, which allows valuation of a higher probe by a lower, accessible goal, in cases where the checker of the probe cannot (fully) value it. This model provides a better account of asymmetries between Spec-head agreement and long-distance agreement patterns, and also accounts for movement-agreement interactions without a need for EPP features.
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