All there is to know about the alls-construction. Putnam, M. T. & Koppen, M. v. The Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics, 14(2):81–109, July, 2011.
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This paper pursues a minimalist analysis of the s-inflection that appears as an enclitic on the all in certain dialects of Midwestern American English; a construction called the alls -construction by Putnam & van Koppen (2009). Following Putnam & van Koppen, we demonstrate that the inter-clausal aspects of the alls-construction can be accounted for via Probe-Goal (Agree) relations similar in many respects to the generative treatment of C(omplementizer)-agreement in West Germanic languages and dialects. Regarding the intra-clausal dimension of this construction, based on the discussion of Den Dikken et al. (2000), we demonstrate that the alls-construction is most accurately described as a Type-A specificational pseudocleft. The analysis of the alls-construction developed here unites both the inter- and intra-clausal aspects of this construction in a parsimonious way.
@article{putnam_all_2011,
	title = {All there is to know about the alls-construction},
	volume = {14},
	issn = {1383-4924, 1572-8552},
	doi = {10.1007/s10828-011-9044-1},
	abstract = {This paper pursues a minimalist analysis of the s-inflection that appears as an enclitic on the all in certain dialects of Midwestern American English; a construction called the alls -construction by Putnam \& van Koppen (2009). Following Putnam \& van Koppen, we demonstrate that the inter-clausal aspects of the alls-construction can be accounted for via Probe-Goal (Agree) relations similar in many respects to the generative treatment of C(omplementizer)-agreement in West Germanic languages and dialects. Regarding the intra-clausal dimension of this construction, based on the discussion of Den Dikken et al. (2000), we demonstrate that the alls-construction is most accurately described as a Type-A specificational pseudocleft. The analysis of the alls-construction developed here unites both the inter- and intra-clausal aspects of this construction in a parsimonious way.},
	language = {en},
	number = {2},
	journal = {The Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics},
	author = {Putnam, Michael T. and Koppen, Marjo van},
	month = jul,
	year = {2011},
	keywords = {Agree, Alls, C(omplementizer)-agreement, CP-layer, Comparative Linguistics, Germanic Languages, Linguistics (general), Midwestern American English (MAE), Probe-Goal relations, Pseudoclefts, Syntax, Theoretical Languages},
	pages = {81--109},
}

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