[PLing] TLC talk by András Bárány, 13 December, 16:30

[Iva Kovač]

Dear colleagues,

We would like to invite you to our next talk within the Theoretical 
Linguistics Colloquium.

Speaker: András Bárány (University of Edinburgh)

Date/venue: 13 December, 16:30 - 18:00, Sensengasse 3a, 1090 Vienna, 
Seminarraum 2

Upcoming events as well as further information can be found on our 
website:
https://sites.google.com/view/totlvienna/upcoming

We are looking forward to seeing you at the talk,
Valerie Wurm, Magdalena Lohninger, and Iva Kovač

Title & abstract:

Analysing PCC patterns with recipient-first agreement

The starting point for this talk is Deal's (2024) analysis of the person 
case constraint (PCC). The PCC refers to a set of co-occurrence 
restrictions of theme and recipient arguments in ditransitive 
constructions mostly (but not only) when these arguments are expressed 
as clitics or weak pronouns. For example, in a common PCC pattern, a 
first person theme argument cannot co-occur with a third person 
recipient argument (weak PCC in Italian, Greek, or Swahili).

Deal (2024) proposes an analysis of this and other PCC patterns in her 
interaction and satisfaction framework. She suggests that the agreeing 
verb enters an Agree relation with the theme first and the recipient 
second. On this approach (theme-first), the features of the theme (say, 
first person) restrict the features the recipient can have (leading to 
ungrammaticality in the case of a third person recipient). This 
restriction on Agree relations is due to "dynamic interaction".

In Bárány (2024), I discuss case and agreement alignment in ditransitive 
constructions and argue that only certain logically possible 
combinations of case-marking and object agreement are attested. 
Crucially, the analysis of this typological pattern relies on the 
assumption that the verb agrees with the recipient first and the theme 
second (recipient-first), in exactly the opposite order to Deal's 
proposal.

I will present an implementation of a recipient-first analysis of the 
PCC patterns discussed by Deal (2024) which, I hope, might combine some 
of the advantages of Deal's proposals with the analysis of the 
typological gap in Bárány (2024).

References:

Bárány, András. 2024. Case and agreement alignment in ditransitive 
constructions: A typological gap and its explanation. _Language_ 100(3). 
385-432.

Deal, Amy Rose. 2024. Interaction, satisfaction, and the PCC. 
_Linguistic Inquiry_ 55(1). 39-94.
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