On First Conjunct Agreement in Spanish

• Main Authors: Syue, Bo-Fan, 薛博帆
• Other Authors: Gerardo Fernández-Salgueiro
• Format: Others
• Language: en_US
• Published: 2017
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/b2x2u2

碩士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 英語學系 === 105 === This thesis investigates the first conjunct agreement (FCA) phenomenon in Spanish. This phenomenon has been widely studied in many languages. However, there are few studies, if any, that focus on FCA in different constructions in Spanish. Besides, there is no analysis on Spanish FCA in the Minimalist Program that incorporates the phase theory (Chomsky 1998) or deals with the timing of the adjunction. In this study, I adopt the late adjunction approach in Soltan (2007) and take into account the phase concept to look into five different constructions, including existential, transitive, non-finite, passive, and reflexive passive, in Spanish. In addition, I propose that ϕ-complete Agree between the verb associated with the agreement projection and the first conjunct blocks FCA; ϕ-defective Agree between the participle and the first conjunct, however, displays FCA. Through the three ingredients, i.e. late adjunction, agreement, and phase, the different possibilities of FCA among the five constructions in this study can be successfully accounted for; besides, the timing of the adjunction of the &P is also demonstrated. It is expected that the analysis of this study can be applied to any constructions in Spanish.