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Carretero García, Paloma: Agreement in Asturian

We propose an LFG treatment for mixed agreement patterns in Asturian, where a given controller can at the same time control two agreement patterns. Under certain specific conditions, adjectives and pronouns show an ending in '-o' in opposition to masculine and feminine endings in '-u' and '-a'. This third ending has been previously considered a neuter gender inherited from Latin. We show this is not a third gender but a separate ending that is superimposed to the gender system and is based on the countability of the nuclear term. We propose an analysis based on the INDEX and CONCORD distinction by formulating agreement constraints that are sensitive to the count/mass distinction directly. We show that the basis for the choice for a given target is not linearisation based and propose a category based solution by which prenominal attributive elements are of category  and agree in CONCORD and postnominal attributive and predicative elements are of category A and agree in INDEX.


December 22, 2022
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