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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Baker, Mark C.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
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.