Agreement of a Point-of-Viewer and a Jussive Subject

This paper investigates the person feature restrictions on Jussive subjects. First, we present three cases of Jussive constructions: Typical-Jussives, Indirect Order, and Non-Typical Exhortatives. Traditionally, previous works in the literature have been concerned with the former two, where a Jussive subject and a Jussive head are totally identical or completely different from each other. However, we introduce a new case, Non-Typical Exhortatives, in which person features of an Exhortative particle are partially manifested by a Jussive subject. We try to propose a unified approach using Agree, based on the recent influential analysis of Zanuttini, Pak, and Portner (2012, NLLT), but show that a simple Agree analysis brings about an under-generation problem. We then demonstrate that information of a Jussive head is passed on to a Jussive subject via a Point-of-Viewer (POV) feature which is related to a conversational participant. Additionally, we propose that first and second person POV features on an Exhortative head can behave individually when they participate in Agreeing with a Jussive subject: subset probing. With this, the three constructions converge into two main groups again: Agree vs. Non-Agree. Our proposal suggests that Obligatory Control in embedded Jussives is not derived by Agree. Additionally, it gives an explanation for a wide variety of Exhortative meanings.