Genitive subjects in Altaic

要旨

We will compare genitive subjects in three Altaic languages, Dagur, Japanese, and Turkish. We will see that in Dagur and Turkish, which have φ-feature agreement, the φ-feature probe merges on a phase head — D in Dagur and C in Turkish. Following Hale (2002), I analyze the Dagur RC as AspP, while it is a full CP in Turkish (Kornfilt 2003). We will explore the possibility that the genitive-subject RC in Japanese is identical to Dagur in having the “reduced ” AspP. As we will see, the inflection on the verb appears to mark aspect, not tense. We will see differences between “normal RC ” and “gapless RC ” constructions with

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