concord, agreement and suppletion

[Jonathan David Bobaljik]

Dear Ora:

At 23:56 +0100 1/13/03, Ora Matushansky wrote:
>Would anyone know if the following three phenomena are possible:
>(1)	Definiteness agreement: the main verb/predicate reflects the
>definiteness of the subject. Things like the Hebrew accusative "et" on
>definite objects and Spanish "a" don't count :)

For whatever it's worth, Hungarian object agreement is described in
this way (though with complexities). References include work by
Szabolcsi, e.g., in Kiefer & E. Kiss, 1994, Syntactic Struct of H;
Synt/Sem 27, Academic Press. See H. Bartos, in U Penn Working Papers
4.2 (1997) for important critique of this position, and an
alternative.

I'd be interested in a summary of responses, if you are getting
responses off-list as well.

Best,

-Jonathan
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