Don’t Rush to Rehabilitate: A Remark on Koeneman and Zeijlstra 2014
2017; The MIT Press; Volume: 48; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1162/ling_a_00239
ISSN1530-9150
AutoresCaroline Heycock, John D. Sundquist,
Tópico(s)Linguistic Variation and Morphology
ResumoKoeneman and Zeijlstra (2014) aim to rehabilitate the strong version of the Rich Agreement Hypothesis (RAH), according to which there is a bidirectional implication between “rich” agreement morphology in the verbal system and movement of the finite verb to a functional head above vP but below the C system (V-to-I movement). We show that one of the clearest empirical arguments raised in the literature against the strong RAH—the persistence of V-to-I movement in Early Modern Danish—is not addressed by any of the counterarguments raised by Koeneman and Zeijlstra and therefore still stands as evidence against the rehabilitated generalization and theory.
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