Studies on agreement / edited by Joao Costa, Maria Christina Figueiredo Silva.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Costa, João, 1972-

Silva, Maria Cristina Figueiredo, 1961-

Series:

Linguistik aktuell ; Bd. 86.

Linguistik aktuell = Linguistics today, 0166-0829 ; v. 86

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Agreement.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Linguistics.

Physical Description:

vi, 285 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The status of agreement is a core issue in current morphological and syntactic theory. The collection of papers in this volume focuses on important issues, such as the nature of the relation between syntax and morphology in determining agreement relations; whether and which syntactic configurations are relevant for determining agreement; the relevance of verbal agreement for the purposes of EPP; the inquiry into the existence of connections between verbal and DP-internal agreement; on the morphological and syntactic distinction of person, number and gender agreement; how and why AGREE and Spec,head relations trigger different agreement effects; and the type of relation that exists between head-movement and morphological agreement. The data collected come from a wide variety of languages and the studies presented discuss innovative and thought-provoking ideas for dealing with agreement phenomena.

Contents:

Studies on Agreement

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Table of contents

Introduction

1. The status of agreement

2. The theoretical status of agreement

2.1. Agreement and functional heads

2.2. Uninterpretable agreement and AGREE

2.3. The consequences of agreement

3. The problems

Notes

References

Capeverdean DP-internal number agreement

1. Introduction

2. DP-internal number agreement

2.1. The data

2.2. Assumptions

2.3. A DM account for DP-internal number agreement in CV

3. A relation with verbal agreement

3.1. Strong V-feature of I and some parametric values

3.2. V-features and the licensing of pro

3.3. A relation of this with DP-internal number agreement

4. The quantifier tudu

5. Conclusions

Nominal and verbal agreement in Portuguese

1. The facts

1.1. DP-internal number agreement

1.2. Subject-verb agreement

1.3. Summary

2. Proposal

3. Further predictions

4. Conclusion

Proleptic agreement as a good design property

1. Proleptic (`anticipatory') agreement and (im)perfection

2. Proleptic agreement as a systematic design property

3. Proleptic agreement as a cross-linguistic phenomenon

4. Predicate displacement within the adjective phrase: Evidence from Romanian

5. Predicate displacement within the Dutch adjectival phrase

6. Proleptic agreement

7. -e in non-agreeing contexts

8. Conclusion

Anti-agreement

2. Agreement patterns in Hungarian

2.1. Agreement

2.2. Coordination and agreement

2.3. R-expressions and agreement

3. Agree and agreement

3.1. Agree in syntax

3.2. Agreement in morphology

4. Cyclicity in agreement

4.1. Phases

4.2. Spell-out domains as morphological units.

4.3. Turkish possessives

5. Welsh

6. Movement-related anti-agreement phenomena

6.1. Local agreement only

6.2. Local anti-agreement only

7. Conclusion

The acquisition of the standard EPP in Dutch and French

2. Steps in the acquisition of the EPP

2.1. The early EPP

2.2. Early EPP and mode-implied subjects

3. The 4 EPP steps in Dutch and French

3.1. First step: I-marking and early EPP

3.2. I-marking precedes D-marking

3.3. Second step: D-marking and free anaphors

3.4. Third step: phi-oppositions on subject and dummy subjects

3.5. Fourth step: Agreement between subject and finite verb

4. Speed of acquisition and evidence frames

4.1. The EPP as evidence frame

Conclusion

Appendix

Number specification

A new view on first conjunct agreement

2. Assumptions

2.1. Features and feature checking

2.2. Case and agreement

2.3. Coordination

3. FCA versus FA: Data

3.1. Complementizer agreement

3.2. FCA and FA

3.3. Summary

4. FCA versus FA: An analysis

4.1. The absence of FCA in the verbal paradigm

4.2. The presence of FA in the verbal paradigm

4.3. The presence of FCA in the complementizer paradigm

4.4. FA in the complementizer paradigm

5. Summary &amp

conclusions

Agreement: The (unique and local) syntactic and morphological licenser of subject Case*

1. Introduction and summary

2. Basic facts: Correlation between overt agreement and subject Case in different types of clauses

2.1. Agreement in verbal clauses and its effects on subject Case

2.2. Nominalized argument clause types

2.3. Correlations between subject Case and Agr

3. Adjunct clauses

3.1. Subjunctive adjunct clauses

3.2. Indicative adjunct clauses (with Agr).

4. An account of subject Case

5. Default Case

6. Rival accounts

6.1. The external N-head hypothesis

6.2. Mood/Modality as expressed by Agr

7. An interesting minimal pair

8. Conclusions

Probes

2. The state of the art

2.1. Pre- and early minimalist accounts for the lack of agreement with postverbal subjects

2.2. The operation Agree

3. Applying the probe approach to our data

4. The problem of Case assignment

4.1. Defective T as a Case assigner?

4.2. Additional evidence: The personal infinitive construction

5. Conclusion and further remarks

Primary sources

Secondary sources

Medieval Spanish

Classical Spanish

Medieval varieties of other Romance languages

Modern Romance varieties

Syntactic agreement across language modalities

1. Syntactic organization of ASL

1.1. Non-manual expressions of syntactic features over phrasal domains

1.2. Focus

1.3. Wh-movement

2. Agreement

2.1. Person distinctions

2.2. Number

2.3. Distribution of non-manual markings of subject and object agreement

3. Reanalysis of head tilt as marker of focus

3.1. Predicate focus

3.2. Interaction with wh-movement

3.3. Previous observations revisited

3.4. Research in progress

4. Conclusions

On the relation of [gender] Agreement

1. The data

1.1. Friulian and standard Italian compared

1.2. Some reflections on agreement features

1.3. PtPPL agreement: A semantic or syntatcic phenomenon?

2. Theoretical claims

3. Tests with adverbials

3.1. Cinque's system and verb movement

3.2. Tests

3.3. An interpretation

4. Towards an account of PtPPL agreement

5. One type of agreement?

Conclusions

References.

The (dis)association of Tense, phi-features EPP and nominative Case

2. The distribution of inflected infinitives, na-clauses and personal infinitives

3. The proposal

3.1. Evidence from subject raising out of aspectual subjunctives and inflected infinitives

3.2. Evidence from subject raising out of passivised perception complements

3.3. Evidence from subject raising out of causative complements

3.4. A control case: Evidence from object raising out of complex adjectival constructions

3.5. Evidence from personal infinitives

Head-Level and Chain-Level constraints on spellout

2. Clitic-Agreement Complementarity in Woolford (2003)

3. Clitic-Agreement Doubling

4. Clitic-Agreement Doubling in Menominee

5. Head-Level and Chain-Level constraints on Spellout

6. The 3rd-person restriction in Menominee

7. Selayarese revisited

8. A partial typology for cross-referencing

9. Summary

Index

The series Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612156038

9781282156036

1282156039

9789027293732

9027293732

OCLC:

237770730