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Abstract Agreement and Clausal Arguments
Author(s) -
Picallo M. Carme
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
syntax
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.587
H-Index - 24
eISSN - 1467-9612
pISSN - 1368-0005
DOI - 10.1111/1467-9612.00049
Subject(s) - agreement , realization (probability) , object (grammar) , linguistics , content (measure theory) , computer science , natural language processing , mathematics , philosophy , statistics , mathematical analysis
CP arguments have been argued to be Caseless and ϕ– featureless. Empirical evidence mainly drawn from Spanish suggests that this claim should be reconsidered. In this paper, I claim that clausal arguments and nominalized clauses have a ϕ content and Case specification. These types of arguments are therefore able to relate by agreement with a functional category. The facts examined support minimalist guidelines by claiming that the concrete realization of the ϕ and Case content of a syntactic object is irrelevant for computational mechanisms to take place.