Clitics or agreement markers: A view from Tigrinya clausal possession and modal necessity
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Abstract
This paper discusses the connection between clausal possession and modal<br> necessity in Tigrinya. One of the unique traits of the two constructions is that they<br> involve the same verbal element ʔalləw-, which hosts an object marker that tracks<br> what appears to be a subject. Using a number of diagnostics, I first demonstrate<br> that the object marker is an agreement affix and that it should be amenable to the<br> operation Agree. Then, using several pieces of morphosyntactic evidence, I argue<br> that the mismatch (the object marker tracking what looks like a subject) arises<br> due to the fact that the DP the object marker references is a “quirky” argument is<br> forced to remerge higher to escape an intervention effect. Finally, I present a syn-<br> tactic analysis for clausal possession and modal necessity, claiming that ʔalləw- is<br> the spell-out of the appl head that relates two arguments in Tigrinya.
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Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.123 | 0.003 |
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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