Abstract
Turkish verbs agree with the subject in almost all cases. The same goes for the copular adjectival or nominal structures. However, if a nominal predicate is 2nd or 1st person whereas the subject is 3rd person the agreement, the agreement takes place with the predicate instead of the subject. Some features had been proposed in order to account for the different behavior of the persons, most famous of which being Harley & Ritter’s (2002) three-way feature system. I will try to develop an economical argument using solely one feature: [ref]. It correctly explains some phenomena that previous feature-dependent accounts come short explaining. I will mostly build up on work of Ince & Aygen & Aydın (2015), spotting problems in their proposal and offering solutions.
Highlights
In this article I will examine one unorthodox1 agreement pattern in Turkish copular sentences
In the presence of a copula (Section 1 will discuss the existence of copula in Turkish), the agreement patterns might deviate from this
When the nominal predicate is either 1st or 2nd person and the subject is a 3rd person DP, subject does not agree since predicate DP takes over the agreement
Summary
In this article I will examine one unorthodox agreement pattern in Turkish copular sentences. The analysis I will present follows the approach assumed by Bejar & Kahnemayipour (2017) and Ince et al (2015). It is built on the operation Agree (Chomsky 2000). Uninterpretable features of the probe Agree with those of the closest goal as per Minimal Link Condition (MLC) and are eliminated before the phase is sent to Spell Out. In the minimalist program, the uninterpretable feature of the probe must be checked and eliminated before Spell Out for the sentence to be interpretable.
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