Postverbal subjects and agreement: specificational copular clauses in Faroese
- In this paper we discuss a type of copular clause – specificational copular clauses – in which subject properties may be split between two nominative noun phrases. In particular, while the first noun phrase occupies the canonical preverbal subject position, in some languages the finite verb can agree with the postverbal nominative. Such agreement might be expected, on some theoretical assumptions, to show person restrictions. We discuss this phenomenon in two SVO Germanic languages – Icelandic and Faroese – and present new data from Faroese showing that the person effect here follows from the existence of distinct probes for Number and Person agreement.
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| Author: | Jutta Hartmann, Caroline Heycock |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-88859 |
| URL: | https://www.italian-journal-linguistics.com/app/uploads/2021/05/9_Hartmann.pdf |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.26346/1120-2726-129 |
| ISSN: | 1120-2726 |
| Parent Title (English): | Italian journal of linguistics = Rivista di linguistica |
| Publisher: | Pacini editore |
| Place of publication: | Pisa, Italien |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Year of first Publication: | 2018 |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2019/06/03 |
| Publicationstate: | Veröffentlichungsversion |
| Reviewstate: | Peer-Review |
| GND Keyword: | Färöisch; Isländisch; Kopulasatz; Nominalphrase |
| Volume: | 30 |
| Issue: | 2 |
| First Page: | 187 |
| Last Page: | 211 |
| DDC classes: | 400 Sprache / 400 Sprache, Linguistik |
| Open Access?: | ja |
| Leibniz-Classification: | Sprache, Linguistik |
| Linguistics-Classification: | Grammatikforschung |
| Program areas: | Grammatik |
| Licence (German): |  Urheberrechtlich geschützt |