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Cyclic agreement and empty slots in Pazar Laz Author(s): Ümit AtlamazAugust 20th, 2021
In ditransitive constructions, we assume that ApplLow head takes care of the agreement in Slot II. In the first cycle, ApplLow head looks at it specifier and agrees with the argument on this node, which is an IO in Pazar Laz. Sentence (28) is an example of Cycle 1 agreement. When the IO is deficient, then Cycle 2 happens and ApplLow head agrees with DO as in sentence (29). When both IO and DO are deficient, Cycle 3 expands the agreement domain towards the specifier of higher phrase which is the subject in this case (Sentence (30)). Sentence (31) illustrates the cases when all the arguments are deficient.
