The syntax of agreement in Romanian.
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Title
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The syntax of agreement in Romanian.
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Identifier
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AAI9808008
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identifier
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9808008
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Creator
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Stefanescu, Ioana.
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Contributor
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Adviser: Richard S. Kayne
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Date
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1997
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Language, Linguistics | Language, Modern
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Abstract
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This study is concerned with three topics on the syntax of agreement in Romanian: subject verb agreement phenomena with subject phrases that are syntactically complex, agreement phenomena in relative clauses formed on personal pronouns and agreement phenomena with equative a fi (be) sentences.;The discussion centers on the relation between finite verb movement to the highest functional head in the clausal architecture, e.g. AGR{dollar}\sp\circ,{dollar} and the licensing of number and person agreement with subject phrases that are partitive phrases, possessive phrases and coordinate NPs. The Thesis explores the possibility that AGR{dollar}\sp{lcub}\circ,{rcub}{dollar} the highest functional head in the clausal architecture, be "split" into two functional heads: Number and Person, respectively. The suggestion about a "split" AGR{dollar}\sp\circ{dollar} is empirically based on the observation that Romanian has a number exponent different from the person exponents. A detailed analysis of the number and person exponents in the synthetic and analytic temporal forms in Romanian is being offered. The agreement pattern in sentences with equative be and relative clauses formed on the subject or on the associate DP of be are analyzed in the last chapter of the Thesis.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
