ConSOLE 33 2025 • University of Göttingen

Functional heads as binders: The case of Eastern Armenian.

Nelli Marutyan

University of Southern California

nmarutya@usc.edu
Eastern Armenianfunctional headsbinders

Abstract

Eastern Armenian exhibits a three-way distinction in third person pronouns. The pronoun NA is particularly noteworthy due to its puzzling distribution: it is anti-subject, anti-wh, and antifocus. The descriptive generalization is that NA is anti-spec vP and anti-spec-FocP. Building on Moulton (2009), I propose that this distribution can be accounted for if we think of Binding as a type of agreement mediated by functional heads.

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Nelli Marutyan (2025). functional heads as binders: the case of eastern armenian.. In Proceedings of ConSOLE 33, edited by Federica Longo, Leonardo Russo Cardona, Tommaso Sgrizzi, Hadis Tamleh, (pp. 275-293).

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@inproceedings{binders-marutyan-2025, title={Functional heads as binders: The case of Eastern Armenian.}, author={Nelli Marutyan}, booktitle={Proceedings of ConSOLE 33}, year={2025}, pages={275-293}, editor={Federica Longo and Leonardo Russo Cardona and Tommaso Sgrizzi and Hadis Tamleh} }

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