The role of agreement in non-finite predication / Gréte Dalmi.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Dalmi, Gréte.

Series:

• Linguistik aktuell ; Bd. 90.
• Linguistik aktuell = Linguistics today, 0166-0829 ; v. 90

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Grammar, Comparative and general--Agreement.
• Grammar, Comparative and general--Verb phrase.
• Grammar, Comparative and general--Topic and comment.
• Grammar, Comparative and general--Syntax.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (240 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This comparative syntactic study claims that agreement is the most central functional category responsible for licensing predication in finite, non-finite and small clauses alike. Intriguing syntactic phenomena like Icelandic infinitival predicates taking non-nominative (quirky) subjects; psych-impersonal and modal predicates in Italian, Hungarian and Russian; meteorological predicates, existential clauses, post-verbal and null subjects in the so-called null-subject VSO languages can all be better analyzed through a concept of predication that is closely related to AGRP, manifesting subject-verb agreement. The overt agreement marking in Hungarian and Portuguese infinitival clauses further strengthens this view. Obviation and control subjunctive clauses in the Balkan languages, Welsh finite and non-finite infinitival clauses as well as case-marked secondary predicates in Icelandic, Slovak, Hungarian, Russian and Finnish also lend support to an analysis where the [+pred] feature is checked in AGRP.

Contents:

• The Role of Agreement in Non-Finite Predication
• Editorial page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Table of contents
• LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
• LIST OF CASES IN HUNGARIAN
• ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
• FOREWORD
• 1.FINITENESS AND MINIMALIST THEORY
• 1.1 Basic notions and principles
• 1.2 Predication relation
• 1.3 The notion of finiteness
• 1.3.1 The infinitive / subjunctive correlation
• 1.3.2 Tense and agreement in non-finite clauses
• 2. TWO THEORIES OF PREDICATION WITHOUT AGRP
• 2.1 From Minimalist Theory to Derivation By Phase
• 2.1.1 The decline of AGRP
• 2.1.2 Strong and weak phases
• 2.2 Thematic feature movement
• 3. AGR-BASED THEORIES OF GRAMMAR
• 3.1 A three-level case checking system
• 3.1.1 Null case theory of Control
• 3.1.2 CP, IP or AGRP?
• 3.2 A visibility-based account of agreement
• 3.3 Predication as feature checking in AGKP
• 3.3.1 Alexiadou &
• Anagnostopolou (1998)
• 3.3.2 The correlation of definiteness with word order
• 3.4 On the categorical vs. thetic distinction
• 3.5 The proposal: checking [+pred] in AGRsP
• 3.6 Wackernagel's insight
• 4. AGRP IN INFINITIVAL CLAUSES:ICELANDIC AND HUNGARIAN
• 4.1 Icelandic infinitival constructions
• 4.2 Non-nominative subjects
• 4.3 Hungarian infinitival constructions
• 4.3.1 Cutting the infinitival pie
• 4.3.2 AGRP in the Dative Control/Dative Raising Class
• 4.3.3 AGRP in Control, Raising and ECM
• 4.3.3.1 The status of PRO in Control
• 4.3.3.2 The role of the matrix AGRP in Raising and ECM
• 4.3.3.3 Causative constructions
• 5. AGRP IN OTHER FORMS OF NON-FINITE PREDICATION
• 5.1 Analysing small clauses
• 5.1.1 The Distribution of Small Clauses
• 5.1.2 Complex predicates vs. LF- incorporation
• 5.1.3 Two strategies of case checking
• 5.2 Functional categories in participle clauses
• 5.2.1 Anterior and contemporaneous participle clauses.
• 5.2.2 The subject of participle clauses
• 5.2.3 Voice/tense correlation in participle clauses
• 5.3 The Balkan Obviation and Control subjunctive revisited
• 5.3.1 The temporal organization of Obviation subjunctives
• 5.3.2 The status of the null subject in Control subjunctive clauses
• 5.4 Welsh finite and non-finite infinitival clauses
• 5.4.1 Semantic classification of Welsh matrix predicates taking infinitival clauses
• 5.4.2 Lexical vs. null subjects in Welsh infinitival clauses
• 6. CONCLUSION
• REFERENCES
• INDEX
• The series Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today.

Notes:

• Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral).
• Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

• 9786613092380
• 9789027285317
• 9027285314
• 9781283092388
• 1283092387

OCLC:

713025898