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Omnivorous agreement via post-syntactic overwriting: the object marker in Mundari| title | Omnivorous agreement via post-syntactic overwriting: the object marker in Mundari |
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| start_date | 2025/03/19 |
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| schedule | 15h-16h30 |
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| online | no |
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| location_info | G15 |
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| summary | In this talk I will present the omnivorous agreement pattern we find in double object structures in Mundari (Austroasiatic, India). The choice of cross-referencing either the indirect or the direct object is determined by the interaction of two prominence scales, one for person (1 >2>3) and one for number (SG>PL>DU). Moving away from a privative number system to account for omnivorous number effects (Nevins 2011), I present an alternative way to account for omnivorous agreement patterns, one that involves cyclic Agree and post-syntactic overwriting. This is partly motivated by the fact that we find omnivory with person features as well as the unusual number scale we find in Mundari, which is in a sense the opposite of the markedness scale we would postulate for number marking across languages. If time permits, I will lay out the predictions of this model and discuss its consequences for the landscape of Agree systems. |
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| responsibles | Konradt |
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| submitted | published | | 2025/03/12 14:40 UTC |
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