Tense and Agreement Impairment in Ibero-Romance

Autor/inn/en	Gavarro, Anna; Martinez-Ferreiro, Silvia
Titel	Tense and Agreement Impairment in Ibero-Romance
Quelle	In: Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 36 (2007) 1, S.25-46 (22 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0090-6905
DOI	10.1007/s10936-006-9031-x
Schlagwörter	Grammar; Form Classes (Languages); Morphemes; Spanish Speaking; Romance Languages; Uncommonly Taught Languages; Linguistic Theory; Syntax; Structural Analysis (Linguistics) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Grammatik; Analytischer Sprachbau; Morphem; Romanische Sprache; Minderheitensprache; Linguistische Theorie; Structural analysis; Strukturanalyse
Abstract	We examine the inflectional productions of seven Catalan, seven Galician, and seven Spanish speaking agrammatic subjects in an elicitation and a sentence repetition task and consider them in the light of the Tree Pruning Hypothesis (TPH). The results show relatively spared subject person/number agreement with the verb and impaired tense marking for all subjects in all the languages. Recent reformulations of syntactic theory [Chomsky (1999) "MIT Occasional Papers in Linguistics" (vol. 18). MA: The MIT Press; (2000). "Step by Step: Essays on Minimalist Syntax in Honor of Howard Lasnik" (pp. 89-155). Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press] regarding the locus of agreement force a reconsideration of the TPH for it to make the desired predictions; we adopt Cinque's [(1999) "Adverbs and Functional Heads: A Cross-linguistic Perspective". Oxford: Oxford University Press] array of functional mood/tense/aspect projections and we show that subject agreement must occur between the subject DP and a low functional head for selective impairment to result. Feature underspecification, formerly considered, is rendered unnecessary. (As Provided).
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