Nothing to Agree on: Non-agreeing subjects of copular clauses in Hebrew
Danon, Gabi. 2012. Nothing to Agree on: Non-agreeing subjects of copular clauses in Hebrew. Acta Linguistica Hungarica 59(1–2). 85–108. https://doi.org/10.1556/ALing.59.2012.1-2.4.
Abstract⌗
Copular clauses in Hebrew with the copula ze never allow their subjects to agree with the copula or with the post-copular predicate. Following previous work, it is shown that such clauses are not predicational and that their subjects often get a ‘hidden event’ interpretation. After ruling out an analysis that takes the copula to be the actual subject and an analysis involving a clausal subject, it is argued that these clauses involve a subject that lacks the features needed for subject-external agreement, while having the features needed for subject-internal agreement.