IPEHCS   26259
INSTITUTO PATAGONICO DE ESTUDIOS DE HUMANIDADES Y CIENCIAS SOCIALES
Unidad Ejecutora - UE
congresos y reuniones científicas
Título:
An approach to unexpected agreement in Spanish
Autor/es:
MARÍA MARE
Lugar:
Alcalá de Henares
Reunión:
Congreso; 27th Colloquium of Generative Grammar; 2017
Resumen:
THE PROPOSAL. This presentation argues that any approach to unexpected morphology must take into account the complete panorama, no matter whether all possibilities are found in the same dialect. According to that, we focus on examples like (3) to propose that what is copied or displaced is just the plural feature. Thus, the information of person and number in ?MOS is independent, ?MO- being the morpheme related to person [1] and ?S to number [PL]. This hypothesis is supported by different phenomena involving unexpected realization of the first plural person, such as normative vamonos instead of vamosnos ?let?s go?, non-standard vamoslo instead of vamosnos or se fuimos for nos fuimos ?we went away? (De Benito 2015). We assume that the verb reanalyses with the clitic and speakers add verbal morphology to this new verbal block. The information for that new agreement morpheme is copied from the most local agreement node. In that process, the original node may or may not be pronounced. This explains why displacement with the first plural person is haga-mo-lo-n and neither haga-lo-n nor haga-lo-mos, as it should be expected if the copied node were [1PL].This approach in terms of locality should also explain the infinitive and gerund data, where the person/number information does not seem to be in the non-finite verb. Accordingly, we revise different contexts for these non-finite forms, in order to revise whether different configurations affect the occurrence of unexpected plurality.