Don't rush to rehabilitate: A remark on Koeneman & Zeijlstra 2014

Caroline Heycock; John Sundquist

doi:10.1162/LING_a_00239

Don't rush to rehabilitate: A remark on Koeneman & Zeijlstra 2014

Caroline Heycock, John Sundquist

School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences

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Koeneman and Zeijlstra (2014) aim to rehabilitate the strong version of the Rich Agreement Hypothesis (RAH), according to which there is a bidirectional implication between "rich" agreement morphology in the verbal system and movement of the finite verb to a functional head above vP but below the C system (V-to-I). We show that one of the clearest empirical arguments raised in the literature against the strong RAH—the persistence of V-to-I in Early Modern Danish—is not addressed by any of the counterarguments raised by Koeneman and Zeijlstra and therefore still stands as evidence against the rehabilitated generalization and theory.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	173-179
Journal	Linguistic Inquiry
Volume	48
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1162/LING_a_00239
Publication status	Published - 6 Feb 2017

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syntax
Scandinavian
Danish
verb-movement

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This is the accepted version of the following article: Heycock (2017) Don’t Rush to Rehabilitate: A Remark on Koeneman and Zeijlstra 2014, Linguistic Inquiry, Volume 48, Number 1, Winter 2017 173–179, which has been published in final form at http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/LING_a_00239.
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