AGREEMENT IN MULTIVALUATION CONSTRUCTIONS

What it is about

As part of the DFG-funded project 'A General Theory of Multivaluation', the Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main hosted the workshop 'Agreement in Multivaluation Constructions' on 19-20 May 2021. The workshop aimed to investigate how agreement is determined when there is not a unique controller of agreement, and so the target of agreement obtains features from multiple sources. Among others, talks investigate the following topics:

Research topics

1. Cross-linguistic differences in agreement patterns with disjoined and conjoined subjects, and the structure of coordination.
2. How feature conflicts regarding person, number, and gender in case of multivaluation are resolved and effects of syncretism.
3. Patterns of closest conjunct and highest conjunct agreement, and how they impact on the formulation of the mechanism of agreement.
4. Experimental work on agreement patterns in multivaluation constructions.