Agreement and its failures / Omer Preminger.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Preminger, Omer, 1976- author.

Series:

Linguistic inquiry monographs.

Linguistic Inquiry Monographs

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:

1 online resource (pages cm.)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This monograph shows that the typically obligatory nature of predicate-argument agreement in phi-features (phi-agreement) cannot be captured through 'derivational time-bombs' - elements of the initial representation that cannot be part of a well-formed, end-of-the-derivation structure, and which are eliminated by the application of phi-agreement itself. This includes, but is not limited to, the 'uninterpretable features' of Chomsky 2000, 2001. Instead, it requires recourse to an operation - one whose invocation is obligatory, but whose successful culmination is not enforced by the grammar.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-262-32319-2

OCLC:

891137647