Agreement Weakening at PF: A Reply to Benmamoun and Lorimor

Peter Ackema; Ad Neeleman

doi:10.1162/LING_a_00074

Agreement Weakening at PF: A Reply to Benmamoun and Lorimor

Peter Ackema, Ad Neeleman

School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences

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Abstract

Benmamoun and Lorimor (2006) dispute the claim made in Ackema and Neeleman 2003 that certain agreement alternations in Standard Arabic, and various related phenomena, can successfully be analyzed in terms of postsyntactic spell-out rules that are sensitive to prosodic structure. In this reply, we argue that the data discussed by Benmamoun and Lorimor do not warrant their conclusion, and in fact provide further evidence in favor of our original analysis.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	75-96
Number of pages	22
Journal	Linguistic Inquiry
Volume	43
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1162/LING_a_00074
Publication status	Published - Dec 2012

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agreement alternations
Standard Arabic
Dutch,
prosodic domains
pro drop

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© 2012 by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Ackema, P. & Neeleman, A. Dec 2012. "Agreement Weakening at PF: A Reply to Benmamoun and Lorimor". In : Linguistic Inquiry. 43, 1, p. 75-96. Final publication available at http://www.mitpressjournals.org/loi/ling
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