Imposters : a study of pronominal agreement / Chris Collins and Paul M. Postal.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Collins, Chris, 1963-

Contributor:

Postal, Paul Martin, 1936-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Pronominals.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Agreement.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Pronoun.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Noun.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (285 p.)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : The MIT Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this work, the authors study the interactions of imposters with a range of grammatical phenomena, including pronominal agreement, coordinate structures, Principle C phenomena epithets, fake indexicals, and a property of pronominal agreement they call homogeneity.

Contents:

Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 2 Notional versus Syntactic Views of Imposters; 3 Imposters as Antecedents; 4 Antecedence: Some Theoretical Considerations; 5 The Structure of Imposters; 6 The Structure of Camouflage DPs; 7 Pronominal Agreement; 8 Accidental Coreference; 9 Coordinate Structures; 10 Principle C Phenomena; 11 Epithets; 12 Homogeneity; 13 Sources; 14 Agreement with Multiple Sources; 15 Fake Indexicals; 16 Irreplaceable Pronominals ; 17 Camouflage Revisited; 18 Pronominal Imposters; 19 Crosslinguistic Variation in Pronominal Agreement; 20 Conclusion; Notes

References Name Index; Subject Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

0-262-30088-5

1-280-49941-9

9786613594648

0-262-30163-6

OCLC:

780444657

Publisher Number:

9786613594648