On agreement-drop in Singlish: topics never agree
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چکیده
This paper examines the distribution and properties of agreement-drop constructions in Singlish, which are distinguished by absence overt subject agreement morphology. I demonstrate that these distinct from their minimally different fully-agreeing counterparts they (i) bleed object topicalisation, (ii) block extraction adjuncts lower structure, (iii) scopally frozen, (iv) unable to be embedded under regret-class predicates, (v) impose a specificity condition on subjects. argue rule out prior characterisations alternation as output free variation PF. On basis Singlish consistently parallels topicalisation structures cross-linguistically, sketch syntactic account unifies two within syntax.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Glossa
سال: 2022
ISSN: ['2397-1835']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.16995/glossa.7679