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Syntax and Syncretisms of the Person Case Constraint
Author(s) -
Adger David,
Harbour Daniel
Publication year - 2007
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/j.1467-9612.2007.00095.x
Subject(s) - syncretism (linguistics) , syntax , constraint (computer aided design) , argument (complex analysis) , computer science , linguistics , head (geology) , dual (grammatical number) , natural language processing , abstract syntax tree , artificial intelligence , philosophy , mathematics , biochemistry , geometry , chemistry , geomorphology , geology
. The Person Case Constraint is frequently concomitant with Case Syncretism. We provide a syntax‐driven account of both phenomena that relies on the dual role that φ ‐features play in selecting and in Case‐licensing argument DPs. The account differs from other syntactic approaches to the PCC in the role it affords the applicative head in the Case system and in the attention it pays to the syntactic structures that feed morphology and therefore induce syncretism.