Person matters in impersonality

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dc.contributor.authorBerro Urrizelki, Ane
dc.contributor.authorOdria Tudanca, Ane
dc.contributor.authorFernández Fernández, Beatriz
dc.date.accessioned2025-05-22T09:19:59Z
dc.date.available2025-05-22T09:19:59Z
dc.date.issued2022-05-22
dc.date.updated2025-05-22T09:19:59Z
dc.description.abstractThe Basque impersonal is a detransitivized construction where the internal argument is the only overt argument and the external argument, although semantically present, does not have any morphological reflex. This article argues that, despite its intransitive shape, the impersonal involves a particular kind of Voice projection that we term defective. For case and agreement, being defective means having no uninterpretable ϕ features and no Case to assign. However, a silent person pronoun is introduced in its specifier position, and thus, there are two arguments within VoiceP. The two arguments compete to value the ϕ features of the next functional head, namely T. With this analysis we account for the main properties of the impersonal, such as the syntactic activeness of the implicit external argument and the person constraint on the internal argument.en
dc.description.sponsorshipSpanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities’ research project PGC2018-096380-B-I00; Basque Government’s research project IT1169, and Agence Nationale de la Recherche’s ANR-17-CE27-0011-BIM research projecten
dc.identifier.citationBerro, A., Odria, A., & Fernández, B. (2022). Person matters in impersonality. Syntax, 25(2), 147-187. https://doi.org/10.1111/SYNT.12230
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/SYNT.12230
dc.identifier.eissn1467-9612
dc.identifier.issn1368-0005
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14454/2811
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherJohn Wiley & Sons Ltd.
dc.rights© 2022 The Authors
dc.titlePerson matters in impersonalityen
dc.typejournal article
dcterms.accessRightsopen access
oaire.citation.endPage187
oaire.citation.issue2
oaire.citation.startPage147
oaire.citation.titleSyntax
oaire.citation.volume25
oaire.licenseConditionhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
oaire.versionVoR
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