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A Typology of EPP-Checking Mechanisms

2016· article· en· W2559255645 on OpenAlex

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Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicSyntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Toronto
Fundersnot available
KeywordsLinguisticsMorphemeDeixisVerbLinguistic typologyWord orderHead (geology)Computer scienceMathematicsTypologyPhilosophyHistory
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Abstract

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I propose that the EPP is obligatory cross-linguistically, but that the forms it takes vary from language to language, and even within the same language, in some cases. Alexiadou and Anagnostopoulou (1998) argue that the EPP can be checked by either a head or by a phrasal element, and Massam and Smallwood (1997) argue that it can be checked by either a verbal or nominal element. Intersecting these two approaches leads to a total of four forms of EPP-checking, as attested, for example, in English, Niuean, Italian, Irish, and Arabic. McCloskey (1996a, 2001) argues that Irish does not have an EPP; I propose that, rather, it has an EPP which is checked by movement of the verb into Infl. Alternations within the Italian subjunctive paradigm indicate that it is the agreement morphemes which are crucial for EPP-checking in Italian. Finally, the alternations in word order and subject-verb agreement in Arabic can be explained by assuming an intra-linguistic alternation between the EPP being checked by a D-head or by a DP. Furthermore, I will argue that it is valued features, in particular, which are crucial for EPP-checking, and that the EPP seems to be related to deixis, which, as Ritter and Wiltschko (2009) argue, is characteristic of the Infl projection.

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metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.914
Threshold uncertainty score0.993

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

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Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0070.000

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Opus teacher head0.036
GPT teacher head0.240
Teacher spread0.204 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

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