Language Use and Linguistic Structure: Proceedings of the Olomouc Linguistics Colloquium 2021

Abstract

I discuss the question of the status of East Slavic languages with respect to the Rich Agreement Hypothesis (henceforth the RAH), arguing that despite appearances, East Slavic, along with the rest of Slavic languages, is well within the scope of what is predicted by the weak RAH.This conclusion relies on a particular conception of head raising, namely that developed in Roberts (2010), i.e., syntactic raising as Defective Goal incorporation.To the extent the analysis proposed here is successful, it provides further support for Roberts (2010) while removing Slavic languages from the list of challenges for the RAH.Overall, two types of head raising are posited in East Slavic Russian and Ukrainian: obligatory V-to-Asp and optional raising above Asp/into the T domain, and both are treated as syntactic in nature.

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