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Verbal Agreement and the Grammar behind its 'Breakdown' : Minimalist feature checking.

Rules of agreement, or concord, account for the special relationship between the verb and the 'subject' that exists in most languages. In many traditional grammars, it is taken for granted that this agreement occurs and usually only the cases of 'lack of concord' are discussed. T...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gelderen, Elly van
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin : De Gruyter, 1997.
Colección:Linguistische Arbeiten.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Introduction
  • 1 Lack of Agreement with Verb Subject I: Empty Expletives
  • 2 Past Participle Agreement: Lack of Agreement with Verb Object
  • 3 Lack of Agreement with Verb Subject II: Government
  • 4 Lack of Agreement in Wh-Structures
  • 5 The History of There
  • 6 There-Expletives
  • 7 Expletive It
  • 8 Argument It: with and without Features
  • 9 Indefinites: The Grammaticalization of Nouns
  • 10 Coordinated Structures
  • 11 Conclusion: Further Issues Regarding Agreement
  • References
  • Index of Authors
  • Index of Subjects