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Title: (Dis)Agree: Movement and Agreement Reconsidered
Author: Pritha Chandra
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Degree Awarded: University of Maryland , Department of Linguistics
Degree Date: 2007
Linguistic Subfield(s): Syntax
Director(s): Norbert Hornstein
Abstract:

This dissertation examines Agree, a narrow syntactic, long-distance
operation underlying phi-agreement in the grammar. Taking the strong
minimalist thesis (cf. Chomsky 2000) as the point of departure, it
questions Agree on both conceptual and empirical grounds. On the conceptual
side, the operation is suspect first for its language-specific character.
Second, it also fails to be justified on the grounds of general
architectural constraints and legibility requirements. Further, evidences
of various long-distance agreement from across languages examined here
question the empirical basis for Agree built throughout the previous
literature. As far as this is true, the dissertation contends that the
faculty of language has nothing beyond Merge and Move/Internal Merge, the
first being inevitable in any language-like system and the latter
necessitated by interface exigencies. The purpose in this dissertation is
to show that these two operations suffice to obtain phi-agreement in
natural language.
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