Michael T. Putnam; and Marjo van Koppen.
C-agreement or something close to it: Some thoughts on the 'alls-construction'.
In Artemis Alexiadou; Jorge Hankamer; Thomas McFadden; Justin Nuger; and Florian Schäfer., editor(s),
Advances in comparative Germanic syntax, of Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, pages 41–58. John Benjamins, Amsterdam, 2009.
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@incollection{putnam_c-agreement_2009,
address = {Amsterdam},
series = {Linguistik {Aktuell}/{Linguistics} {Today}},
title = {C-agreement or something close to it: {Some} thoughts on the 'alls-construction'},
isbn = {978-90-272-5524-2},
number = {141},
booktitle = {Advances in comparative {Germanic} syntax},
publisher = {John Benjamins},
author = {Putnam, Michael T. and Koppen, Marjo van},
editor = {Alexiadou, Artemis and Hankamer, Jorge and McFadden, Thomas and Nuger, Justin and Schäfer, Florian},
year = {2009},
doi = {https://doi.org/10.1075/la.141.03cag},
keywords = {Alls, Germanic Languages, Grammar, Comparative, Syntax},
pages = {41--58},
}
Michael T. Putnam; and Marjo van Koppen.
All there is to know about the alls-construction.
The Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics, 14(2): 81–109. July 2011.
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@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},
}
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.