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Scott (2023): Pronouns and Agreement in San Juan Atitán Mam #

This file formalizes the dissertation's account of agreement and pronoun form in San Juan Atitán Mam. Agreement is copying under the interaction and satisfaction theory of Agree (54): a probe copies the features of its interaction condition from the first goal that satisfies it. The probe on Infl (73) interacts with author and number and is satisfied by φ or by transitive Voice (inflProbe), so in a transitive clause it halts at transitive Voice before reaching either argument and copies nothing (inflProbe_transitive), while in an intransitive clause it reaches the subject (inflProbe_intransitive); the agreeing-object grammar of standard Mam differs in the one disjunct (standardInflProbe_transitive). Which head agrees with which argument is read off the probes (agreedBy).

Vocabulary Insertion realizes the copied features by the Extended Subset Principle (53) over the Vocabulary of Tables 4.7, 4.8 and 4.10 and of (59), (65) and (66) (vocabulary), which derives the Fragment's Set A and Set B paradigms (setA_realize, setB_realize) and the default Set B of a transitive clause, where Infl carries no φ (setB_transitive). A pronoun hosts every item its features license, so first-person pronouns are bimorphemic (§4.4.1, insertAll). A probe that copies a goal's features flags the goal with its category (§4.4.3.2, Feat.flag), and the impoverishment rule (84) deletes number from a flagged first-person pronoun (rule84), bleeding the bases qin and qo: the reduced subject and possessor series and the full independent series of Table 4.25 are both derived from one Vocabulary (form_flagged, form_unflagged), and the optional rule (93) reduces second-person plural in Set A contexts alone (form_rule93). The dissertation's judgments (Data/Examples/Scott2023) instantiate the derivation (pronoun_rows).

Implementation notes #

References #

Features and Vocabulary #

The loci of agreement are Infl, the Set B locus, and v/n, Voice or Poss, the Set A locus (Tables 4.7, 4.8).

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      The cells #

      The seven person–number cells of the pronominal paradigm (Table 4.4), the quadripartition of persons crossed with number less the impossible first person singular inclusive.

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        def Scott2023.instReprPronCell.repr :
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          The person features of a cell (Table 4.4) are Harbour's sign of its category, [±author] and [±participant], the latter an addressee feature under which the first person singular and exclusive are [−participant].

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            Whether a cell is singular.

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              The fragment's independent pronoun of a cell.

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                The fragment's subject and possessor pronoun of a cell.

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                  Features and Vocabulary Items #

                  inductive Scott2023.Feat :

                  A feature of a terminal is one of Harbour's bivalent person and number features (Table 4.4), the locus a Set A or Set B terminal sits on, or the flag a probe leaves on a goal whose features it has copied (§4.4.3.2, Table 4.26).

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                    def Scott2023.instDecidableEqFeat.decEq (x✝ x✝¹ : Feat) :
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                      def Scott2023.instReprFeat.repr :
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                        structure Scott2023.Item :

                        A Vocabulary Item, as the dissertation writes them, has the features it realizes, its contextual specification, and its exponent.

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                          def Scott2023.instDecidableEqItem.decEq (x✝ x✝¹ : Item) :
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                            def Scott2023.instReprItem.repr :
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                              def Scott2023.Item.site (i : Item) :
                              List Feat

                              Everything an item requires of its terminal.

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                                The item for the substrate's Subset Principle keeps its site and exponent.

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                                  The Vocabulary lists Set A (Table 4.7), Set B with its context-free first-person plural and its Elsewhere item (Table 4.8), the pronominal base qin (Table 4.10), the plurals q and qa ((65), (66)), and the disagreement enclitic at its two disagreeing values (59), listed last as the items are linearized in Vocabulary order.

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                                    def Scott2023.insert1 (t : List Feat) :

                                    Single insertion at an agreement terminal inserts the most specific applicable item, by the Extended Subset Principle (53).

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                                      Multiple insertion at a pronoun (§4.4.1) inserts every applicable item, unless a more specific applicable item realizes what it realizes.

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                                        Agreement (§3.4.2, §4.4.2) #

                                        On its search a probe meets an argument bearing φ, or the transitive Voice head.

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                                          def Scott2023.instDecidableEqEncounter.decEq (x✝ x✝¹ : Encounter) :
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                                            def Scott2023.instReprEncounter.repr :
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                                              The transitive Voice head.

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                                                An argument bearing φ.

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                                                  The probe on Infl (73) interacts with φ and is satisfied by φ or by transitive Voice, so either halts it, and it agrees with a goal only if the goal bears φ.

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                                                    The probe on Infl of the agreeing-object grammar (56), satisfied by φ alone.

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                                                      The probe on Voice or Poss, satisfied by the φ of its specifier.

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                                                        Infl's search domain in the clause of an argument (60), (64) is transitive Voice, then the object, which has moved above the subject, then the subject; or the intransitive subject.

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                                                          The search domain of Voice or Poss is its specifier, the transitive subject.

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                                                            theorem Scott2023.inflProbe_transitive (rest : List Encounter) :
                                                            inflProbe.agree (voiceTR :: rest) = none

                                                            In a transitive clause Infl's probe halts at transitive Voice and agrees with nothing, whatever lies below (60), (61).

                                                            In an intransitive clause Infl's probe agrees with the subject (64).

                                                            Under the agreeing-object grammar Infl's probe passes transitive Voice and agrees with the object (56), (57).

                                                            The probe that copies an argument's features sits on Infl for the intransitive subject and on Voice or Poss for the transitive subject; no probe copies the object's.

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                                                              A probe copies author and number (73a).

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                                                                The Set B terminal on Infl in the clause of an argument in a cell carries the copied features if Infl agreed with the argument, at the Infl locus.

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                                                                  The Set A terminal on Voice or Poss agreeing with a cell.

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                                                                    The Fragment's Set B paradigm (Table 4.6) is the Vocabulary's spell-out of what Infl copies from an intransitive subject; 2SG and 3SG fall to the Elsewhere item.

                                                                    By default Set B (61), with no features copied, inserts the Elsewhere item tz'=, whatever the object's cell.

                                                                    The Fragment's Set A paradigm (Table 4.5, pre-consonantal) is the Vocabulary's spell-out of what Voice or Poss copies.

                                                                    chin and qin compete (Table 4.10): both realize first-person singular, the Infl-specified item wins on Infl, and only the context-free base is available off it.

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                                                                    inductive Scott2023.Dim :

                                                                    The dimension an impoverishment rule deletes.

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                                                                      instance Scott2023.instDecidableEqDim :
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                                                                      instance Scott2023.instReprDim :
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                                                                        def Scott2023.delete (t : List Feat) (d : Dim) :
                                                                        List Feat

                                                                        Delete a dimension from a terminal.

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                                                                          def Scott2023.flagged (t : List Feat) :
                                                                          Bool

                                                                          Whether a terminal carries the flag of some probe.

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                                                                            The impoverishment rule (84) deletes number from a first-person pronoun a probe has flagged.

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                                                                              The optional rule (93) deletes number from a second-person pronoun flagged by Voice or Poss.

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                                                                                def Scott2023.pronounTerminal (l : Option Locus) (c : PronCell) :
                                                                                List Feat

                                                                                A pronoun terminal in a cell, flagged by the probe that copied its features, if any.

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                                                                                  The form of a pronoun in a cell under a grammar with impoverishment rules rules, flagged by l: the rules apply and every licensed item is inserted.

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                                                                                    def Scott2023.form (l : Option Locus) (c : PronCell) :

                                                                                    The form of a pronoun under the grammar of (84).

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                                                                                      The morphemes of the Fragment's pronoun entries (Table 4.9) are qin=i, qo'=y, qo, =i, q=i, qa, and the null third-person singular.

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                                                                                        In the independent series (Table 4.25), an unflagged pronoun, an object or the subject of a non-verbal predicate, hosts every item its features license.

                                                                                        theorem Scott2023.form_flagged (l : Locus) (c : PronCell) :
                                                                                        form (some l) c = morphemes (subjPossOf c)

                                                                                        In the subject and possessor series (Table 4.25), a pronoun flagged by either locus loses its number if first person, so the bases qin and qo are bled and the enclitic remains.

                                                                                        With the optional rule (93), second-person plural reduces to the enclitic in a Set A context but not in a Set B context ((89)–(91)).

                                                                                        An argument in a cell takes the form flagged by the probe that agreed with it.

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                                                                                          Reduction is nominatively aligned ((3), (8)): subjects take the reduced series and the object the independent series.

                                                                                          The disagreement generalization ([Noy92], §4.3.3), read off the fragment: a cell's independent pronoun contains the enclitic exactly when its author and participant features disagree.

                                                                                          Reduction is first-personhood: the subject and possessor pronoun differs from the independent one exactly at the [+author] cells (Table 4.1).

                                                                                          The judgments #

                                                                                          def Scott2023.spell (ms : List Morphology.Morph) :
                                                                                          String

                                                                                          A pronoun is spelled as its morphemes with clitic boundaries.

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                                                                                            structure Scott2023.Row :

                                                                                            A judgment of the pool records the position's flag, the cell, the pronoun, whether the optional rule (93) is in force, and the judgment.

                                                                                            • flag : Option Locus
                                                                                            • cell : PronCell
                                                                                            • pronoun : String
                                                                                            • optional : Bool
                                                                                            • accepted : Bool
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                                                                                              def Scott2023.instDecidableEqRow.decEq (x✝ x✝¹ : Row) :
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                                                                                                  def Scott2023.Row.ofDatum (ex : Datum) :
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                                                                                                    The pronoun judgments of §4.4.

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                                                                                                      theorem Scott2023.pronoun_rows (r : Row) :
                                                                                                      r ∈ rows → (r.accepted = true ↔ spell (form r.flag r.cell) = r.pronoun ∨ r.optional = true ∧ spell (formWith [rule84, rule93] r.flag r.cell) = r.pronoun)

                                                                                                      A pronoun is accepted exactly when it is the derived form, under (84) or, where the row invokes it, the optional (93).