Agreement systems / edited by Cedric Boeckx.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Boeckx, Cedric.

Series:

Linguistik aktuell ; Bd. 92.

Linguistik aktuell = Linguistics today, 0166-0829 ; v. 92

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Agreement.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Case.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Syntax.

Physical Description:

vi, 346 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub., 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Agreement Systems

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Table of contents

Acknowledgements

Contributors

Introduction

References

1. Are we in Agreement?

1. Instances of Nominative Case beyond English

2. Featural properties of T

3. Obligatory control in Romanian

4. Against multiple Case valuation

5. Conclusions

Notes

2. From hierarchies to features

1. Person splits, hierarchies and markedness

2. Ergativity: Core assumptions

3. Th e syntax of splits: Case distinctions refl ect diff erent types of vs

4. Inverse systems

3. Finiteness and the relation between Agreement and Nominative Case

1. Introduction

2. Tensed-S Condition and Specifi ed Subject Condition

3. What marks fi niteness in Turkic languages?

4. Finiteness as nominative case and phases

5. Can this analysis be extended to other languages?

6. Infl ected Infi nitives with Nominative Subjects

7. The prediction of the proposed analysis: Th e ECM Hypothesis

8. Theoretical implications and conclusions

4. Case and agreement with genitive of quantifi cation in Russian

2. Case

3. Agreement

4. Conclusion

5. How sentences grow in the mind

1. The interplay of local syntax and interface conditions

2. The problem of case assignment to participles

3. Feature Sharing

4. δ-agreement

5. Chains, the Chain Condition, and locality

6. Expletives

7. Quirky case in Icelandic

8. Selection: A local solution to a global problem

6. Agreement confi gurations

2. DP internal agreement: agreement patterns in Maasai DPs

3. Long distance agreement

4. Icelandic

5. Conclusion

References.

7. Agree in syntax, agreement in signs

1. Minimal feature syntax: a general outline

2. Agree, Merge, matching, Move

3. Agreement: Th e Icelandic case

4. Phi-feature matching and the Person Restriction

5. Concluding remarks

8. Standard Arabic subject-verb agreement asymmetry revisited in an Agree-based minimalist syntax

2. Th e subject-verb agreement asymmetry in Standard Arabic

3. A Spec-head agreement approach to the SVAA

4. Agreement with pronominal subjects and the status of preverbal DPs

5. Standard Arabic SVAA in an Agree-based framework

6. Some empirical consequences of the Agree-based analysis of SVAA

7. Conclusions

9. Complete and partial Infl

2. Null Case

3. Variation in successive cyclic A-movement

4. Conditions on null Case realization: Complement clauses

5. Conditions on null Case realization: Infl ectional specifi ers

6. Cyclicity and freezing matters

7. Case slipping and the Bracing Condition

8. Some syntactic consequences of the NCV thesis

9. Syntactic conclusions

10. An argument for the Transparency Th esis in the syntax/semantics mapping

10. Case-agreement mismatches

1. Case and agreement: Th eory and typological predictions

2. Warlpiri

3. Gujarati

4. Discussion

11. Local agreement

2. Basic properties of subject-verb agreement

3. Standard approaches to agreement

4. Some comparative aspects of subject-verb agreement

5. Th e realization of agreement

6. Dependency as a function of Merge

7. Conclusion

Author index

Subject index

Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612155802

9781282155800

1282155806

9789027293503

9027293503

OCLC:

123399380