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Diagnosing Object Agreement vs. Clitic Doubling: An Inuit Case Study
2019
Linguistic Inquiry
Much recent literature has focused on whether the verbal agreement morphology cross-referencing objects is true -agreement or clitic doubling. I address this question on the basis of comparative data from related Inuit languages, Inuktitut and Kalaallisut (West Greenlandic), and argue that both possibilities are attested in Inuit. Evidence for this claim comes from diverging syntactic and semantic properties of the object DPs encoded by this cross-referencing morphology. I demonstrate that
doi:10.1162/ling_a_00366
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