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SUMMARY:Feature sharing in agreement? Evidence from Latin nominalized part
 iciples - Dag Haug\, University of Oslo
DTSTART:20140501T160000Z
DTEND:20140501T173000Z
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CONTACT:Alison Biggs
DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, I discuss the mechanism of feature sharing in t
 he analysis of agreement across theories. I argue that there are agreement
  phenomena that require an agreement mechanism which is both symmetric and
  feature sharing. The main argument relies on a Latin nominalized clause c
 onstruction which has until now remained ill understood\, but I will also 
 show that phenomena that have so far been described in terms of long dista
 nce agreement lend themselves to a treatment in terms of feature sharing. 
 I will then look at the consequences for the theory of agreement. I show t
 hat there are also cases of agreement which resist a feature-sharing treat
 ment. This means that we cannot pin down a single agree mechanism. Some ag
 reement phenomena require feature sharing\, others do not\, and yet others
  are incompatible with feature sharing. The talk complements a talk I gave
  in the Cambridge classical linguistics seminar last year\, but here the f
 ocus is on what the Latin data tells us about the theory of agreement\, ra
 ther than on the Latin construction itself.
LOCATION:Faculty of Law\, Room LG19
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