| Date: |
2025 |
| Abstract: |
Throughout the Romance languages, a definite clitic serving as a pro-predicate for an adjectival or indefinite nominal predicate is insensitive to the category and φ-features of its antecedent and local subject, resisting concord. This is remarkable in light of the obligatory φ-feature concord with its antecedent when the clitic serves as an argument, and the robustness of φ-feature con cord between a [+N] full predi cate and its subject in Romance. In this short paper, Déchaine & Wiltschko's (2002) analysis of French le will be amended for Romance pro-predicate definite clitics, which will be shown to be best treated as pro-N rather than pro-φ elements. The Romance data are analysed here against the background of the properties of predicate proforms in Hungarian. |
| Rights: |
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| Language: |
Anglès |
| Document: |
Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada |
| Subject: |
Predicate proform ;
Category ;
Case ;
Φ-feature concord |
| Published in: |
Isogloss, Vol. 11, Num. 7 (2025) , p. 1-12 (Articles) , ISSN 2385-4138 |
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