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| Title | Peas and pancakes. On apparent disagreement and (null) light verbs in Swedish |
| Author/s | Gunlög Josefsson |
| Department/s |
Scandinavian Languages
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| Full-text | Full text is not available in this archive |
| Publication/Series | Nordic Journal of Linguistics |
| Publishing year | 2009 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 35 - 72 |
| Document type | Journal article |
| Status | published |
| Quality controlled | yes |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Cambridge Univesity Press |
| Abstract English |
Two variants of what looks like disagreement between a subject and a predicative adjective are explored: (i) Senap är gul-t. mustard.COMMON is yellow-NEUT ‘Mustard is yellow.’ = Construction NOM(inal) (ii) Två älskare är omoralisk-t. [two lovers]COMMON.PL is immoral-NEUT ‘To have two lovers is immoral.’ = Construction PROP(ositional) Having shown how Construction NOM and Construction PROP differ, I demonstrate that the subject of Construction PROP is clausal. I argue that the topmost XP of the subject phrase of both constructions contains a null neuter element. This accounts for the neuter predicative agreement; hence the idea of default agreement or semantic agreement can be dismissed. I also argue that the subject in (ii) contains a vP , the head of which is a null light verb. Other instances of null light verbs in Swedish are identified too. Finally, I propose an analysis that accounts for the close relation between Construction PROP and the corresponding construction with a med-phrase ‘with-phrase’. |
| Subject |
Languages and Literatures |
| Keywords | agreement, Ärter är gott-sentences, default gender, passepartouts, semantic agreement, Pannekaker er godt-sentences, neuter, med-phrase, disagreement, light verb |
| References | References |
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