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Introduction |
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PART ONE Past participle agreement in Romance languages: General properties and previous accounts |
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Chapter 1 General Remarks On Past Participle Agreement |
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1.1 Past participle agreement in French and Italian |
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1.1.2 Descriptive generalizations |
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1.2.1 Traditional approaches |
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1.2.2 Some sociolinguistic and stylistic considerations |
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1.2.3 Semantic/pragmatic approaches |
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1.2.4 Syntactic approaches: Position, Spec-Head relations and AgrO |
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1.2.5 More recent accounts from a minimalist perspective |
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Chapter 2 Optionality And Language Change: Ppa As An Interface Phenomenon |
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2.1 Optionality: Competing grammars and interface effects |
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2.2 Interface effects on PPA |
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2.2.1 Information structure-syntax interface |
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2.2.2 Semantics/pragmatics-syntax interface |
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2.3 Object phenomena related to specificity |
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2.3.1 Object movement, CLD and DOM |
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2.3.2 PPA and object movement |
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Chapter 3 Past Participle Agreement In Catalan |
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3.1 Peculiarities of PPA in Catalan |
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3.2 PPA as a case of doubt: A digression on normative grammar and the realization of PPA |
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3.3 PPA in Catalan: A phenomenon at the interfaces? |
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3.3.1 The role of specificity in Catalan PPA |
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3.3.2 Correlations among object phenomena |
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3.3.3 Further evidence: Definiteness effects in absolute small clauses |
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Chapter 4 Standpoint And Research Outlines |
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PART TWO Theoretical background: Universal grammar and language change |
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Chapter 5 On Clausal Structure And Universal Grammar |
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5.1 Universal grammar and the clausal spine |
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5.2 Parameters and variation |
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5.3 Formal features and Agree |
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Chapter 6 On Grammaticalization And Language Change |
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6.1 Grammaticalization as a descriptive tool |
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6.2 Grammaticalization clines: From semantic to formal features |
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6.3 Some thoughts on the question of morphology |
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6.4 Economy and cyclicity |
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Chapter 7 Subject-Verb Agreement Revisited |
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7.1 Preliminaries: Some problematic issues |
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7.2 Two diachronic stages in subject-verb agreement |
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7.3 On the role of case in grammaticalization and language change |
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PART THREE Past participle agreement in Catalan: An empirical study |
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Chapter 8 Data Collection |
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8.1 Old Catalan (11th--15th centuries) and Decadenca Catalan (16th--19th centuries) |
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8.1.1 General methodological issues |
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8.1.3 Coded features and coding criteria |
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8.2.1 Target constructions of the test |
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8.2.2 Structure of the questionnaire |
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9.1 Old Catalan: Results of the corpus analysis |
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9.1.2 The object noun phrase (NP/DP) |
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9.2 Results of the questionnaire for Modern Catalan |
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9.2.4 Influence of dialect and language dominance |
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9.3 Interpreting the data: A PPA-cycle |
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Chapter 10 Diachronic Analysis Of Past Participle Agreement In Catalan: A Grammaticalization Approach |
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10.1 Additional assumptions |
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10.2 Grammaticalizing formal features and avoiding redundancy |
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10.2.1 Stage 1: Obligatory agreement |
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10.2.2 Stage 2: PPA controlled by specificity? |
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10.2.3 Stage 3: Positional rules on agreement |
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10.2.4 Stage 4: Optional agreement |
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10.2.5 Stage 5: Loss of agreement |
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10.3 Outcomes, shortcomings, outlook |
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10.3.1 The division between narrow syntax and the interfaces |
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10.3.2 Consequences of grammaticalization for accusative case |
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10.3.3 Some remarks on unaccusativity |
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Concluding remarks |
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References |
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Appendix I List of texts used in the Old Catalan corpus |
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Appendix II Acceptability judgment task for Modern Catalan |
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Index |
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