Past Participle Agreement : A Study on the Grammaticalization of Formal Features.

Intro -- Past Participle Agreement -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication page -- Table of contents -- Introduction -- Part 1. Past participle agreement in Romance languages: General properties and previous accounts -- 1. General remarks on past participle agreement -- 1.1 Past participle agreement in French and Italian -- 1.1.1 Basic data -- 1.1.2 Descriptive generalizations -- 1.2 Previous accounts -- 1.2.1 Traditional approaches -- 1.2.2 Some sociolinguistic and stylistic considerations -- 1.2.3 Semantic/pragmatic approaches -- 1.2.4 Syntactic approaches: Position, Spec-Head relations and AgrO -- 1.2.5 More recent accounts from a minimalist perspective -- 2. Optionality and language change: PPA as an interface phenomenon -- 2.1 Optionality: Competing grammars and interface effects -- 2.2 Interface effects on PPA -- 2.2.1 Information structure-syntax interface -- 2.2.2 Semantics/pragmatics-syntax interface -- 2.3 Object phenomena related to specificity -- 2.3.1 Object movement, CLD and DOM -- 2.3.2 PPA and object movement -- 2.3.3 PPA and DOM -- 2.3.4 PPA and CLD -- 2.4 Interim summary -- 3. Past participle agreement in Catalan -- 3.1 Peculiarities of PPA in Catalan -- 3.2 PPA as a case of doubt: A digression on normative grammar and the realization of PPA -- 3.3 PPA in Catalan: A phenomenon at the interfaces? -- 3.3.1 The role of specificity in Catalan PPA -- 3.3.2 Correlations among object phenomena -- 3.3.3 Further evidence: Definiteness effects in absolute small clauses -- 4. Standpoint and research outlines -- Part 2. Theoretical background: Universal grammar and language change -- 5. On clausal structure and universal grammar -- 5.1 Universal grammar and the clausal spine -- 5.2 Parameters and variation -- 5.3 Formal features and Agree -- 6. On grammaticalization and language change.

6.1 Grammaticalization as a descriptive tool -- 6.2 Grammaticalization clines: From semantic to formal features -- 6.3 Some thoughts on the question of morphology -- 6.4 Economy and cyclicity -- 6.5 Summarizing -- 7. Subject-verb agreement revisited -- 7.1 Preliminaries: Some problematic issues -- 7.2 Two diachronic stages in subject-verb agreement -- 7.3 On the role of case in grammaticalization and language change -- Part 3. Past participle agreement in Catalan: An empirical study -- 8. Data collection -- 8.1 Old Catalan (11th-15th centuries) and 'Decadença' Catalan (16th-19th centuries) -- 8.1.1 General methodological issues -- 8.1.2 Text selection -- 8.1.3 Coded features and coding criteria -- 8.1.3.1 The verb -- 8.1.3.2 The object noun phrase (NP/DP) -- 8.1.3.3 The clause -- 8.2 Modern Catalan -- 8.2.1 Target constructions of the test -- 8.2.2 Structure of the questionnaire -- 8.2.3 Participants -- 9. The PPA cycle -- 9.1 Old Catalan: Results of the corpus analysis -- 9.1.1 The verb -- 9.1.1.1 Verbal lexeme -- 9.1.1.2 Auxiliary verb -- 9.1.1.3 Participle agreement -- 9.1.2 The object noun phrase (NP/DP) -- 9.1.2.1 Gender and number -- 9.1.2.2 Person -- 9.1.2.3 Case -- 9.1.2.4 Definiteness and specificity -- 9.1.2.5 Genericity -- 9.1.2.6 Animacy -- 9.1.3 The clause -- 9.1.3.1 Construction type -- 9.1.3.2 Word order, position with respect to the verb, adjacency -- 9.2 Results of the questionnaire for Modern Catalan -- 9.2.1 Interpolation -- 9.2.2 Causatives -- 9.2.3 Partitive objects -- 9.2.4 Influence of dialect and language dominance -- 9.3 Interpreting the data: A PPA-cycle -- 10. Diachronic analysis of past participle agreement in Catalan: A grammaticalization approach -- 10.1 Additional assumptions -- 10.2 Grammaticalizing formal features and avoiding redundancy -- 10.2.1 Stage 1: Obligatory agreement.

10.2.2 Stage 2: PPA controlled by specificity? -- 10.2.3 Stage 3: Positional rules on agreement -- 10.2.4 Stage 4: Optional agreement -- 10.2.5 Stage 5: Loss of agreement -- 10.3 Outcomes, shortcomings, outlook -- 10.3.1 The division between narrow syntax and the interfaces -- 10.3.2 Consequences of grammaticalization for accusative case -- 10.3.3 Some remarks on unaccusativity -- 10.3.4 Open issues -- Concluding remarks -- References -- List of texts used in the Old Catalan corpus -- 11th-13th century -- 14th century -- 15th century -- 16th century -- 17th-19th century -- Index.

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