Italian past participles reveal groundbreaking asymmetry in subject-object agreement.
The article discusses how Italian past participles agree with subjects and objects. The researchers suggest a new way to understand this agreement, focusing on the position of the past participle in a sentence. They found that past participle agreement is determined by the Phase Impenetrability Condition, not by a specific grammar rule. This analysis predicts that there is a difference in how subjects and objects agree with past participles in Italian.