When phi-Agreement Targets Topics: The view from San Martín Peras Mixtec

• Main Author: Ostrove, Jason
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: eScholarship, University of California 2018
• Subjects: Linguistics; agreement; clitic doubling; Mixtec; syntax; topic agreement; San Martín; khanty
• Online Access: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/55b8d7jw

This dissertation presents what is, to my knowledge, the first in-depth theoretical syntactic investigation of a Mixtec language: San Martín Peras Mixtec. The syntax of this language is explored through the lens of a process called pronoun doubling, which duplicates the phi-features of a nominal wit...