Case and agreement from fringe to core : a minimalist approach / Stefan Keine.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Keine, Stefan.

Series:

Linguistische Arbeiten (Max Niemeyer Verlag) ; 536.

Linguistische Arbeiten, 0344-6727 ; 536

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Case.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Agreement.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (240 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin : De Gruyter, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book explores the view that impoverishment and Agree operations are part of a single grammatical component. The architecture set forth here gives rise tocomplex but highly systematic interactions between the two operations. This interaction is shown to provide a unified and general account of apparentlydiverse and unrelated intances of eccentric argument encoding that so far haveremained elusive to a unified theoretical account. The proposed view of the grammatical architecture achieves an integration of these phenomena withinbetter-studied languages and thus gives rise to a more general theory of caseand agreement phenomena. The empirical evidence on the basis of which the proposal is developed drawsfrom a wide range of typologically non-related languages, including Basque, Hindi, Icelandic, Itelmen, Marathi, Nez Perce, Niuean, Punjabi, Sahaptin, Selayarese, Yukaghir, and Yurok . The proposal has far-reaching consequences for the study of grammatical architecture, linguistic interfaces, derivational locality in apparently non-local dependencies and the role of functional considerations in formal approaches tothe human language faculty.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Abbreviations

1. Introduction

2. Theoretical Background

3. The Input to Agree

4. Eccentric Agreement

5. Icelandic Nominative Objects

6. Global Case Splits

7. Ξ-Impoverishment

8. Concluding Remarks

Backmatter

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612885051

9781282885059

1282885057

9783110234404

3110234408

OCLC:

689997553