The article discusses person agreement in embedded reports in Aqusha Dargwa (Nakh-Daghestanian). In contrast to root clauses, which have obligatory person agreement matching the features of the controller, finite embedded reports allow pronoun-agreement mismatches, such as third person agreement in the presence of a first person singular subject or first person singular agreement in the presence of a third person subject. I argue that person agreement in Aqusha can function in two different modes—plain ϕ feature mode and logophoric mode—depending on whether person morphology responds to usual morphological person features or to discourse-related logophoric features. Concentrating on the logophoric mode, I propose that the left periphery of finite embedded reports contains a logophoric complementizer that carries the discourse feature [LOG] and a null pronominal in its specifier specified as [ATTITUDE HOLDER].
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May 17 2022
Agreement Shift in Embedded Reports
Dmitry Ganenkov
Dmitry Ganenkov
Department of English and American Studies, Humboldt University of Berlin, d.ganenkov@gmail.com
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Dmitry Ganenkov
Department of English and American Studies, Humboldt University of Berlin, d.ganenkov@gmail.com
Online Issn: 1530-9150
Print Issn: 0024-3892
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Linguistic Inquiry 1–24.
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Dmitry Ganenkov; Agreement Shift in Embedded Reports. Linguistic Inquiry 2022; doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/ling_a_00449
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