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Case matching and syncretism in ATB‐dependencies
Author(s) -
Hein Johannes,
Murphy Andrew
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
studia linguistica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.187
H-Index - 28
eISSN - 1467-9582
pISSN - 0039-3193
DOI - 10.1111/stul.12126
Subject(s) - syncretism (linguistics) , matching (statistics) , intersection (aeronautics) , relation (database) , property (philosophy) , feature (linguistics) , computer science , movement (music) , linguistics , natural language processing , artificial intelligence , mathematics , philosophy , epistemology , data mining , geography , cartography , aesthetics , statistics
Syncretism has been reported to have the peculiar property of repairing violations of syntactic constraints, e.g. with agreement (Schütze 2003, Bhatt & Walkow 2013) and case matching (Citko 2005, van Craenenbroeck 2012). This paper puts forward the view that in one well‐reported instance of syncretism repair of case‐matching violations with ATB‐movement, this repair follows directly from the nature of ATB movement. We pursue a novel movement‐based analysis in which ATB movement involves the actual fusion of two syntactic objects, via intersection of feature sets. As well as deriving the one‐to‐many relation between fillers and gaps in ATB, we show how the ‘repair’ effect of syncretism with case matching violations follows naturally under this approach.