Aspects Of The Syntax Of Agreement

Author : Cedric Boeckx
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 366 pages
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Release : 2008-04-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781135896010

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Aspects of the Syntax of Agreement by Cedric Boeckx Pdf

This volume brings together various strands of research focusing on aspects of the syntax of agreement, and the role that agreement plays in linguistic theory. The essays collected here show how and why agreement has emerged in recent years as the central theoretical construct in minimalism. Although the theoretical context of the volume is minimalist in character, Boeckx formulates formal and substantive universals in the domain of agreement.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 279 pages
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Release : 2024-06-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781135896027

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Aspects of the Syntax of Agreement by Anonim Pdf

Author : Mark C. Baker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2008-02-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781139469708

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The Syntax of Agreement and Concord by Mark C. Baker Pdf

'Agreement' is the grammatical phenomenon in which the form of one item, such as the noun 'horses', forces a second item in the sentence, such as the verb 'gallop', to appear in a particular form, i.e. 'gallop' must agree with 'horses' in number. Even though agreement phenomena are some of the most familiar and well-studied aspects of grammar, there are certain basic questions that have rarely been asked, let alone answered. This book develops a theory of the agreement processes found in language, and considers why verbs agree with subjects in person, adjectives agree in number and gender but not person, and nouns do not agree at all. Explaining these differences leads to a theory that can be applied to all parts of speech and to all languages.

Author : Cédric Boeckx
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
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Release : 2008
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1055295317

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Aspects of the Syntax of Agreement by Cédric Boeckx Pdf

Author : Peter W. Smith,Johannes Mursell,Katharina Hartmann
Publisher : Language Science Press
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783961102143

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Agree to Agree by Peter W. Smith,Johannes Mursell,Katharina Hartmann Pdf

Agreement is a pervasive phenomenon across natural languages. Depending on one’s definition of what constitutes agreement, it is either found in virtually every natural language that we know of, or it is at least found in a great many. Either way, it seems to be a core part of the system that underpins our syntactic knowledge. Since the introduction of the operation of Agree in Chomsky (2000), agreement phenomena and the mechanism that underlies agreement have garnered a lot of attention in the Minimalist literature and have received different theoretical treatments at different stages. Since then, many different phenomena involving dependencies between elements in syntax, including movement or not, have been accounted for using Agree. The mechanism of Agree thus provides a powerful tool to model dependencies between syntactic elements far beyond φ-feature agreement. The articles collected in this volume further explore these topics and contribute to the ongoing debates surrounding agreement. The authors gathered in this book are internationally reknown experts in the field of Agreement.

Author : Marcel den Dikken
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781107354586

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The Cambridge Handbook of Generative Syntax by Marcel den Dikken Pdf

Syntax – the study of sentence structure – has been at the centre of generative linguistics from its inception and has developed rapidly and in various directions. The Cambridge Handbook of Generative Syntax provides a historical context for what is happening in the field of generative syntax today, a survey of the various generative approaches to syntactic structure available in the literature and an overview of the state of the art in the principal modules of the theory and the interfaces with semantics, phonology, information structure and sentence processing, as well as linguistic variation and language acquisition. This indispensable resource for advanced students, professional linguists (generative and non-generative alike) and scholars in related fields of inquiry presents a comprehensive survey of the field of generative syntactic research in all its variety, written by leading experts and providing a proper sense of the range of syntactic theories calling themselves generative.

Author : Susan Steele
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789400923782

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Agreement and Anti-Agreement by Susan Steele Pdf

Author : Center for the Study of Language and Information (U.S.)
Publisher : Center for the Study of Language (CSLI)
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1988-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0937073024

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Agreement in Natural Language by Center for the Study of Language and Information (U.S.) Pdf

Although grammatical agreement or concord is widespread in human languages, linguistic theorists have generally treated agreement phenomena as secondary or even marginal. All the papers in this volume, however, take agreement phenomena seriously, as presenting either a general issue in theory construction or a descriptive problem in particular types of languages. The theoretical perspectives range from purportedly theory-neutral typological frameworks to assumptions about the validity of one or another current formal model. Further, the degree of generality ranges from a universalist nature-of-human-language agenda to concern with one or another aspect of grammatical agreement or with agreement in a single language or language group.

Author : Eric Fuß
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2005-10-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027294142

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The Rise of Agreement by Eric Fuß Pdf

This book investigates the historical paths leading from pronouns to markers of verbal agreement and proposes a unified formal account of this grammaticalization process. In opposition to beliefs widely held in the literature, it is argued that new agreement formatives can be coined in a multitude of syntactic environments. Still, the individual paths toward agreement are shown to exhibit a set of underlying similarities which are attributed to universal principles that govern the reanalysis of pronominal clitics as exponents of verbal agreement across languages. It is claimed that syntactic principles impose only a set of necessary conditions on the reanalysis in question, while its ultimate trigger is morphological in nature. More specifically, it is argued that the acquisition of inflectional morphology is governed by blocking effects which operate during language acquisition and promote the grammaticalization of new markers if this change serves to replace ‘worn-out’, underspecified forms with new, more specified candidates.

Author : Peter Ackema,Patrick Brandt,Maaike Schoorlemmer,Fred Weerman
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2006-09-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780191515910

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Arguments and Agreement by Peter Ackema,Patrick Brandt,Maaike Schoorlemmer,Fred Weerman Pdf

This book brings together new work by leading syntactic theorists from the USA and Europe on a central aspect of syntactic and morphological theory: it explores the role of agreement morphology in the morphosyntactic realization of a verb's arguments. The authors examine the differences and parallels between nonconfigurational, pronominal- agreement languages; configurational languages which allow pronoun drop (for example, "Is coming" for "He is coming"); languages that allow pronoun drop in particular constructions only; and languages which always require overt syntactic determiner phrases as arguments. The book considers whether the morphological properties of agreement play a role in determining which of these types a language belongs to and how far languages differ with respect to the argumental status of their agreement and syntactic determiner phrases. The authors explore these and related issues and problems in the context of a wide range of languages. Their book will interest linguists at graduate level and above concerned with morphosyntactic theory, linguistic typology, and the interactions of syntax and morphology in different languages.

Author : Johannes Mursell
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027259738

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The Syntax of Information-Structural Agreement by Johannes Mursell Pdf

In this research monograph, Johannes Mursell discusses the syntactic impact of information-structural features on agreement. So far, the syntactic contribution of this type of feature has mostly been reduced to movement of topics or foci clause-initial position. Here, the author looks at a different phenomenon, syntactic agreement, and how this process can be dependent on information-structural properties. Based partly on original fieldwork from a typologically diverse set of languages, including Tagalog, Swahili, and Lavukaleve, it is argued that for most areas for which information-structural features have been discussed, it is possible to find cases where these features influence phi-feature agreement. The analysis is then extended to cases of Association with Focus, which does not involve phi-features but can still be accounted for with agreement of information-structural features. The book achieves two main goals: first it provides a uniform analysis for different constructions in unrelated languages. Second, it also gives a new argument that information-structural features should be treated as genuine syntactic features.

Author : Cedric Boeckx
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2006-07-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027293503

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Agreement Systems by Cedric Boeckx Pdf

Agreement plays a central role in modern generative grammar. The present collection brings together contributions from experts on various aspects of agreement systems in the world’s languages in an attempt to formulate formal and substantive universals in this domain. All the papers contained here focus on the formalization of the mechanisms of agreement and on the relationship between case and agreement. All the papers propose solutions by seriously examining cross-linguistic data from the usual Germanic and Romance languages to Lummi, Greek, Hindi, Turkish and other Turkic languages, Japanese, Tsez, Masaai, Russian, Arabic, Basque, Warlpiri, Kaltakungu, and Bantu.

Author : Mark C. Baker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2008-02-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521855470

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The Syntax of Agreement and Concord by Mark C. Baker Pdf

'Agreement' is the grammatical phenomenon in which the form of one item, such as the noun 'horses', forces a second item in the sentence, such as the verb 'gallop', to appear in a particular form, i.e. 'gallop' must agree with 'horses' in number. Even though agreement phenomena are some of the most familiar and well-studied aspects of grammar, there are certain basic questions that have rarely been asked, let alone answered. This book develops a theory of the agreement processes found in language, and considers why verbs agree with subjects in person, adjectives agree in number and gender but not person, and nouns do not agree at all. Explaining these differences leads to a theory that can be applied to all parts of speech and to all languages.

Author : Greville G. Corbett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2006-06-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780521807081

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Agreement by Greville G. Corbett Pdf

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Author : Stephen Wechsler,Larisa Zlatić
Publisher : Stanford Univ Center for the Study
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1575864185

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The Many Faces of Agreement by Stephen Wechsler,Larisa Zlatić Pdf

Agreement features correlate closely with semantics as well as with noun morphology. This book presents a precise formal theory of those correlations, illustrated with Serbo-Croatian and other languages. In explaining regular agreement as a network of constraints, the theory also predicts a restricted set of exceptional situations where normal agreement can give way to agreement mismatches. With this framework in place, the authors explore a number of factors that affect agreement processes. The theory even explains the striking cross-linguistic generalizations expressed in Corbett's Agreement Hierarchy. Agreement is shown to be a distributed phenomenon, manifesting its many faces among the various components of grammar.