The syntax of agreement and concord /
'Agreement' is the grammatical phenomenon in which the form of one item forces a second item in the sentence. This book develops a theory of the agreement processes found in language, explaining why the differences lead to a theory that can be applied to all parts of speech and to all lang...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2008.
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Colección: | Cambridge studies in linguistics ;
115. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Introduction: category distinctions as a window on the theory of agreement
- 1.1. generalization to be explained
- 1.2. incompleteness of previous discussions
- 1.3. What a better theory could look like
- 1.4. What is in this book
- 1.5. What is not in this book
- 2. Basic agreement and category distinctions
- 2.1. generality of the categorical asymmetries in agreement
- 2.2. category-theoretic infrastructure
- 2.3. agreement-theoretic contribution
- 2.4. Explaining the basic categorical asymmetries in agreement
- 2.5. Issues arising
- 2.6. Conclusion
- 3. unity of verbal and adjectival agreement
- 3.1. Downward agreement on adjectives
- 3.2. Upward agreement on verbs
- 3.3. Verbs that cannot agree in person, like adjectives
- 3.4. Conclusion
- 4. Explaining the restriction on person agreement
- 4.1. Person agreement and other categories
- 4.2. Operator-variable agreement and Agree
- 4.3. locality condition on first and second person variables
- 4.4. On the strictness of locality conditions involving heads
- 4.5. Deriving the SCOPA
- 4.6. Conclusion
- 5. Parameters of agreement
- 5.1. Introduction: parameters and other kinds of variation
- 5.2. Agreement on tense
- 5.3. Agreement on F[subscript A] and the formulation of the parameters
- 5.4. Agreement on complementizers
- 5.5. Agreement on determiners
- 5.6. Agreement on adpositions
- 5.7. Agreement on v
- 5.8. Agreement on the linker head
- 5.9. Agreement in auxiliary constructions
- 5.10. third value for the Direction of Agreement Parameter
- 5.11. Many little parameters or two big parameters?
- 5.12. General conclusion
- App. Table of languages and their agreement properties.