The term anaphor–agreement effect refers to the descriptive generalization that anaphors
cannot control agreement on the verb. The general consensus in the literature is that the …

The Agreement Hierarchy consists of four principal target positions: attributive, predicate,
relative pronoun and anaphoric personal pronoun. It constrains the distribution of alternative …

Given the central spot afforded to unvalued features in current theorizing, the directionality of
feature valuation is the subject of a lively debate in the syntactic literature. The traditional …

This paper discusses two analyses of the Anaphor Agreement Effect (AAE, Rizzi 1990) in the
light of novel data from Avar. By demonstrating that Avar anaphors trigger full, non-trivial …

Categorization retains its key importance in research on human cognition. It is an intellectual
area where all disciplines devoted to human cognition–psychology, philosophy …

Bernhard Wälchli & Francesca Di Garbo organized in form of systems, its diachronic
evolution cannot be captured in terms of individual diachronic processes. When gender …

Canonical agreement is productively marked on all agreement targets of a given type.
Corbett (2006: 17) calls the specific non-canonical deviation from this, in which agreement is …

The lexicon divides into parts of speech (or lexical categories), and there are cross-cutting
regularities (features). These two dimensions of analysis take us a long way, but several …

This study presents new data on the bi-absolutive construction in Chechen, a Nakh-
Daghestanian language spoken in the northern Caucasus. The basic case frame in a …

This paper argues that the difference of potential agreement controllers in Lak (Nakh-
Daghestanian, Russia) Biabsolutive Constructions (lexical verb agreement controlled by the …