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On Default Agreement in Turkish1Default Agreement • March 10th, 2008
In Turkish, complement clauses and possessive structures bear default agreement with Partitive Subjects/Possessors, unlike matrix clauses, whereas full agreement occurs in matrix clauses with both partitive and non- partitive Subjects because these phrases form a doubling structure with a pro which is selected due to selection of T(ense) in the lexical array, and it is the pro that agrees with Agr. Since non-matrix structures are defective because they do not have TP projection, Agr has to agree with the partitive Subject/Possessor since no pro forms a doubling structure with them. This shows that Turkish is a [-multiple agree] language, and that agreement and Case checking are independent operations.
