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SUMMARY:Long-distance agreement for person: Some new data from Icelandic -
  Professor Caroline Heycock (University of Edinburgh)
DTSTART:20150604T150000Z
DTEND:20150604T163000Z
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CONTACT:Theodora Alexopoulou
DESCRIPTION:One of the well-known features of Insular Scandinavian is the 
 possibility for the finite verb to agree with a nominal that is not in the
  “canonical” subject position high in the left periphery of the clause
 . Most attention has been given to cases where a non-nominative DP occupie
 s the canonical subject position and the verb agrees with a nominative obj
 ect\, or with the nominative subject of an embedded small clause\, and a n
 umber of theoretical conclusions about the mechanism of agreement have bee
 n drawn from the observation that in such cases there is never agreement f
 or person\, but only number. One additional piece of this puzzle is that l
 ack of person agreement results in ungrammaticality in some cases\, but in
  default agreement in others.  In this talk\, based on joint work with Jut
 ta Hartmann (University of Tübingen)\,  I will explore a case of apparent
  “long distance” agreement which does—at least for some speakers—a
 llow person agreement: copular sentences with two nominative arguments.  S
 uch cases have been claimed not to exist in Icelandic\, but i will present
  the results of two recent experiments that we have conducted that include
  robust attestation of person agreement\, but also some challenging variat
 ion.
LOCATION:GR04\, English Faculty Building\, 9 West Road\, Sidgwick Site
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