24.3635, Qs: Verbal ellipsis and complementizer agreement

Tue Sep 17 14:10:24 UTC 2013

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Subject: 24.3635, Qs: Verbal ellipsis and complementizer agreement

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Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2013 10:10:13
From: Eric Fuß [fuss at lingua.uni-frankfurt.de]
Subject: Verbal ellipsis and complementizer agreement

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Dear all, 

in at least some varieties of Bavarian, the availability of complementizer agreement seems to be dependent on the presence of the finite verb: In cases where the finite verb is elided, the realization of inflectional features in the C-domain becomes less acceptable or even ungrammatical:

(1)   ??[ dass-sd    du   noch  Minga] und  [ dass   da   Hans 
             that-2SG  you  to     Munich and    that   the  Hans
             noch  Truchtlaching   geht]
             to     Truchtlaching  go-3SG

(2)   a.  D’Resl    is  gresser  [ als    wia-st   du   bist]
            the-Resl is  taller      than  as-2SG  you  are
            ‘Resl is taller than you are.’
       b. *D’Resl    is  gresser  [ als    wia-st  du]
             the-Resl  is  taller     than  as-2SG  you
       c.   D’Resl     is  gresser  [ als   wia  du]
             the-Resl is  taller        than  as    you

However, it seems that these observations are subject to some amount of cross-dialectal variation (in both Dutch and German varieties). I would be very interested to learn more about the behavior of complementizer agreement in these contexts. Thank you very much!

Linguistic Field(s): Syntax

Language Family(ies): Germanic

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