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In (1a), the verb displays 3rd singular absolutive agreement and 3rd singular ergative agreement. The same verb form is employed in (1b) when the object is wh-<\/em>questioned. However, when the subject is wh<\/em>-questioned in (1c), the canonical transitive form cannot be used. Rather, a special construction termed Agent Focus<\/em>, unavailable elsewhere (1b), is employed.<\/p>\n This pattern of syntactic ergativity is attributed to the configuration of ergative-absolutive agreement. The object moves to a position above the subject (Spec-v<\/em>P\/VoiceP) to establish an Agree relationship with T0<\/sup> (Aldridge 2004, Legate 2008), and acts as an intervener for subsequent \u0100-operations that would target the subject (e.g. Coon et al. 2014, Assmann et al. 2015, Levin 2018). Agent Focus renders the subject a viable target for \u0100-operations by keeping the object in a hierarchically lower position.<\/p>\n In certain contexts, however, \u0100-movement of the transitive subject is exceptionally licit without Agent Focus. In this talk, I focus on two such contexts \u2013 extended reflexive (2) and multiple \u0100-movement (3) constructions:<\/p>\n In (2), the subject wh<\/em>-question does not require Agent Focus, because the subject is co-referential with the object\u2019s possessor. In (3), the subject wh<\/em>-question does not require Agent Focus, because the object has also undergone \u0100-movement, forming an indefinite free relative.<\/p>\n I claim that (2-3) provide evidence that LF-interface considerations for chain interpretation are active in syntax. Agent Focus need not (and therefore cannot) be employed in (2-3), because the copy of the object in Spec-v<\/em>P\/VoiceP is not privileged by the LF-interface, and therefore does not act as an intervener. In (2), LF privileges a lower copy of the object, in Compl-V0<\/sup>, for the purposes of binding, rendering the higher copy a non-intervener. In the case of (3), LF privileges a still higher copy of the object, in Spec-CP, for the interpretation of the indefinite free relative, rendering the medial copy a non-intervener.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Theodore Levin(National University of Singapore) Kaqchikel (K\u2019ichean), like several other Mayan languages, display syntactic ergativity effects \u2013 a ban on \u0100-movement of the transitive subject: In (1a), the verb displays 3rd singular absolutive agreement and 3rd singular ergative agreement. The same verb form is employed in (1b) when the object is wh-questioned. However, when the … Continue reading LF determines (non-)interveners: Two case studies in Kaqchikel (Mayan)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":27,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-45","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P9qjuD-J","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lingconf.com\/compsyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lingconf.com\/compsyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lingconf.com\/compsyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lingconf.com\/compsyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lingconf.com\/compsyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lingconf.com\/compsyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/45\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61,"href":"https:\/\/lingconf.com\/compsyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/45\/revisions\/61"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lingconf.com\/compsyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lingconf.com\/compsyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lingconf.com\/compsyn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2018\/02\/levin-ex23.png?resize=660%2C201\")
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