
doi: 10.31234/osf.io/yzga4 , 10.1016/j.cortex.2017.12.009 , 10.31234/osf.io/yzga4_v1 , 10.17605/osf.io/yzga4
pmid: 29331824
handle: 10810/24546
doi: 10.31234/osf.io/yzga4 , 10.1016/j.cortex.2017.12.009 , 10.31234/osf.io/yzga4_v1 , 10.17605/osf.io/yzga4
pmid: 29331824
handle: 10810/24546
Previous cross-linguistic research has found that comprehenders are immediately sensitive to various kinds of agreement violations across languages. We focused on Basque, a verb-final ergative language with both subject-verb (S-V) and object-verb (O-V) agreement. We compared the effects of S-V agreement violations on comprehenders’ event-related brain potentials (ERPs) in transitive sentences (where O-V agreement is present, and the subject is ergative) and intransitive sentences (where O-V agreement is absent, and the subject is absolutive). We observed a P600 effect in both cases, but only violations with intransitive subjects elicited an early posterior negativity. Such a qualitative difference suggests that distinct neurocognitive mechanisms are involved in processing agreement with transitive subjects (which are marked with ergative case) vs. intransitive subjects (which bear absolutive case). Building on theoretical proposals that in languages such as Basque, true agreement occurs with absolutive subjects but not with ergative subjects, we submit that the early posterior negativity may be an electrophysiological signature for true agreement.
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