Optionality and Variability: Syntactic Licensing Meets Morphological Spell-Out
This dissertation explores case and verbal agreement in Icelandic. Case and agreement generally pattern together, but there are exceptional instances in which case and agreement come apart. In Icelandic, verbs agree with Nominative DPs. However, in some constructions, agreement with a Nominative is...
Main Author: | Ussery, Cherlon |
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Format: | Others |
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ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst
2009
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Online Access: | https://scholarworks.umass.edu/open_access_dissertations/138 https://scholarworks.umass.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1149&context=open_access_dissertations |
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