Abstract
Abstract
To date, there has been limited empirical research on complementizer agreement (CA). We investigate CA drawing on
a corpus of 144 speakers from 13 locations across Austria that was elicited through computer supported language production
experiments and recorded in conversations. We investigate the linguistic factors that govern the occurrence of CA, as well as its
areal distribution. We further explore the role of CA in speakers’ linguistic repertoires. The study finds evidence for the hypothesis that the
(non-)occurrence of CA is strongly dependent on the structure of its hosting C-elements and finds regional patterns. It also
identifies CA as a phenomenon which speakers place in a non-standard register. We use the collected data to test a theory of the
emergence of CA from clitic pronouns for Bavarian varieties of German.
Publisher
John Benjamins Publishing Company
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