Agreeing inflected quantifiers, intensifiers and anaphors as derived personal pronouns: Evidence from Tatar. (September 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Lyutikova, Ekaterina
• Is Part Of: Word structure. Volume 15:Number 3(2022)
• Page Start: 380
• Page End: 401
• Publication Date: 2022-09
• Subjects: person agreement -- quantifiers -- intensifiers -- anaphors -- personal pronouns -- Tatar; Grammar, Comparative and general -- Morphology -- Periodicals; 415
• DOI: 10.3366/word.2022.0215
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1750-1245

Abstract

Abstract : In this paper, I analyse the intricate agreement pattern attested with inflected quantifiers, intensifiers and anaphors in Tatar, which can trigger not only a default 3 rd person agreement, but also the marked person agreement reflecting the features of their restrictor or binder. I claim that in these constructions, inflected quantifiers, intensifiers and anaphors bear the features the agreement reveals, and propose a mechanism allowing them to acquire the features of their restrictor or binder. I build on the idea that agreeing inflected quantifiers, intensifiers and anaphors contain a minimal pronoun equipped with a set of unvalued interpretable features, and that this feature set gets valued via agreement.