Long-Distance Agreement in Icelandic: locality restored

Abstract The subject-predicate agreement system in Icelandic appears to show sensitivity to the morphological marking of case, instead of the syntactic position of the argument to be agreed with. Furthermore, agreement with the Nominative object appears to be optional and may be disrupted by an intervening Dative argument. This article contributes to the existing discussion by proposing a new empirical generalization about the nature of Long-Distance Agreement (lda), i.e., agreement which occurs in a bi-clausal environment, and its interaction with Dative interventions. Based on the new data f... Mehr ...