| ROA: | 55 |
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| Title: | Object Agreement in Palauan: Specificity, Humanness, Economy, and Optimality |
| Authors: | Ellen Woolford |
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| Length: | 45 |
| Abstract: | Object Agreement in Palauan: Specificity, Humanness, Economy, and Optimality ROA-55 obj-agr.ps Ellen Woolford University of Massachusetts Complex conditions on object agreement and preposition insertion in Palauan, conditioned by aspect, specificity, number, and humanness, are shown to follow from a modified version of Diesing's Mapping Hypothesis interacting with (ranked with respect to) two economy (faithfulness) principles, Avoid Movement and Avoid Insertion. The radical difference that aspect makes in the treatment of objects is shown to fall out if one economy principle is re-ranked in the perfective aspect. NB. This paper is also posted in (significantly) compressed form in papers/ZIP, as obj-agrps.zip, and as obj-agr.ps.Z in papers/COMPRESSED. :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: |
| Type: | Paper/tech report |
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| Article: | Version 1 |