The Syntax of Valuation in Auxiliary-participle Constructions

This paper proposes that syntactic dependencies are established through Reverse Agree, a feature valuation dependency in which unvalued features are licensed (i.e., valued) by the closest c-commanding element with the appropriate valued feature. I illustrate that this view, in contrast to standard A...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wurmbrand, Susi
Other Authors: University of Connecticut
Language:en_US
Published: University of Arizona Linguistics Circle 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10150/253431