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סמינר מחלקתי

תאריך: 
ג', 27/11/201814:30-16:00
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מרצה: 
זואי בלק, יוניברסיטי קולג' לונדון

 

 

Attribution marking in West Germanic as a realisation of JOIN

The talk introduces the AP adjacency phenomenon, parallel with Case adjacency, and argues for the existence of a morpheme that mediates the relationship between adjectives and nouns in the way that accusative case mediates between verbs and direct objects. This morpheme, JOIN (Baker 2003, Truswell 2004), is the source of attributive modification and the anchor for the JOIN-First Constraint (Belk and Neeleman 2017). I will provide a brief overview of agreement morphology in the noun phrase of four West Germanic languages, and explore the idea that at least some instances of adjectival agreement are realisations of JOIN.