Types of Agree
Phi-agreement types
Terms
Phenomena
General
100
When a probe fails to find a suitable goal, the search ends with no penalty to the derivation.
What is fallible Agree?
100
The agreement is only with the subject
What is subject agreement?
100
The pair that participates in an Agree relation
What are the probe & goal?
100
Anaphors across languages typically cannot trigger "normal" (i.e. phi-covarying) agreement.
What is the Anaphor Agreement Effect (AAE)?
100
Nothing can escape this chunk of structure except through its head or specifier.
What is a phase?
200
One probe, two (or more) goals. Or:
One goal, two (or more) probes.
What is multiple Agree?
200
The agreement is with the subject or object, whichever happens to be nominative.
What is case-discriminating agreement?
200
This constraint prevents an element from moving or Agreeing across another element of the same category.
What is Relativized Minimality?
200
This phenomenon seen in Basque
What is the Person Case Constraint (PCC)?
200
This is the atom of syntax.
What is a syntactic feature?
300
The probe searches in its c-command domain and if it fails to find a matching goal, it expands its search space and searches upward.
What is cyclic Agree or cyclic expansion?
300
Agreement reflects features of both the subject and the object.
What is object agreement?
300
The requirement that the goal in an Agree relation bear at least one unvalued/unchecked feature.
What is the Activity Condition?
300
The phenomenon seen in this minimal triple in Basque:
What is allocutive agreement?
300
The rule that prevents a phrase XP from having more than one head.
What is endocentricity?
400
The probe is specified for two things:
1. The features it can copy
2. The features that terminate its search
What is Interaction/Satisfaction?
400
Agreement reflects the features of the subject in intransitives and of the object in transitives
What is an ERG-ABS agreement pattern?
400
Faux-Icelandic:
a. The boys.DAT was/*were bored.
b. [The computers.NOM] are/*is ugly.
c. Finds/*Find [the student.DAT] [the computers.NOM] ugly.
(= The student finds the computers ugly)
What is defective intervention?
400
The kind of matrix verb agreement shown for Hindi below:
What is long-distance agreement?
400
The operation underlying the examples in (a) & (b):
(a) Mary seems to be expected to appear smart.
(b) Who did Ali tell Rahman that Saurav saw Meena meet?
What is successive cyclic movement?
500
The probe searches for, and is satisfied by, a proper subset of the features on the goal.
What is relativized probing?
500
A-bar extraction of the subject bleeds subject agreement.
What is anti-agreement?
500
Two probes Agree jointly with a common goal.
What is a shared probe?
500
The kind of phenomenon seen in Washo below:
What is switch reference?
500
It is a maximal projection and so is its mother, but not its sister.
What is a specifier?