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We’re delighted to announce that Shiori Ikawa<\/a> successfully defended her dissertation on February 4th!!!<\/h5>\n
Title<\/strong>:<\/span>\u00a0‘On Agree feeding interpretation: Honorificity, empathy, and switch-reference.’<\/h5>\n
Co-Chairs<\/span><\/strong>: Mark Baker<\/a> and Troy Messick<\/a><\/h5>\n
Committee members<\/span>: <\/b>Yimei Xiang<\/a> and Rafaella Zanutini<\/a>\u00a0(External, Yale University)<\/h5>\n

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Abstract<\/strong><\/span>: Agree is one of the few core syntactic operations posited in minimalist syntax\u00a0(Chomsky, 2000, 2001) and as such its nature has been subject to debate from various\u00a0perspectives. While the standard assumption is that the result of Agree does not affect\u00a0interpretation, this dissertation shows that Agree can not only affect PF but can also\u00a0affect LF by providing arguments to some semantic predicates. In particular, I claim\u00a0that some functional heads are semantic predicates that select their arguments via\u00a0Agree over index features.<\/p>\n

I first establish the claim by examining Object Honorifics in Japanese. Previous\u00a0syntactic literature has considered object agreement over an honorific feature borne by\u00a0the object (Toribio, 1990; Hasegawa, 2017, a.o.). This approach has been supported\u00a0by the observation that the distribution of the object that controls object honorific<\/p>\n

marking is constrained by the configurational constraints on Agree (Niinuma, 2003;\u00a0Boeckx and Niinuma, 2004; Boeckx, 2006). I show, however, that the Object Honorific\u00a0construction expresses an honorific relationship between the subject referent and the\u00a0object referent, which cannot be reduced to the semantics of the honorific feature on\u00a0the object. I claim that the head responsible for the Object Honorific marking is a\u00a0semantic predicate honor, and finds its arguments via Agree.\u00a0I go on to extend the idea to three other phenomena, Japanese Benefactive auxiliaries, the Direct \/ Inverse system in Japhug and the typology of Switch Reference.\u00a0In each of these phenomena, the pivotal head establishes a relationship with some\u00a0nominal expressions already in the sentence. While this relationship can be established only in a configuration where an Agree relationship can be established, each\u00a0phenomenon involves components that cannot be reduced to a feature on the nominal\u00a0expressions. I will show that the idea that semantic predicates can select their arguments via Agree straightforwardly captures these apparently conflicting observations.<\/p>\n

At an empirical level, this dissertation sheds light on the aspects of the four\u00a0phenomena the that have been ignored or considered problematic and set aside in\u00a0many of the previous syntactic studies. At a theoretical level, the conclusion of this\u00a0dissertation has implications not only on the issue of the interpretability of Agree but\u00a0also on the mechanism of selection and on the direction of Agree.<\/p>\n

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Congratulations to Dr. Ikawa!! We wish you all the best for the next chapter of your life!<\/h5>\n

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