Phi-theory : phi-features across modules and interfaces / edited by Daniel Harbour, David Adger and Susana Béjar.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Harbour, Daniel, editor.

Adger, David, editor.

Béjar, Susana, 1970- editor.

Series:

Oxford studies in theoretical linguistics ; no. 16.

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford studies in theoretical linguistics ; no. 16

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Generative grammar.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (392 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This title brings together the different strands and styles of research on Phi-features, such as person, number, and gender. It presents the core questions, major results, and new directions of this emergent area of linguistic theory and shows how Phi Theory casts light on the nature of interfaces and the structure of the grammar.

Contents:

Why phi? / David Adger and Daniel Harbour

Features on bound pronouns / Irene Heim

On the semantic markedness of phi-features / Uli Sauerland

Phi-agree and theta-related case / Milan Rezac

Conditions on phi-agree / Susana Bejar

Phi-feature competition in morphology and syntax / Martha McGinnis

Discontinuous agreement and the syntax

morphology interface / Daniel Harbour

Third-person marking in menominee / Jochen Trommer

When is a syncretism more than a syncretism? / Heidi Harley

Where's phi? agreement as a post syntactic operation / Jonathan David Bobaljik

Cross-modular parallels in the study of phon and phi / Andrew Nevins.

Notes:

Formerly CIP.

Previously issued in print: 2008.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

1-383-03523-7

1-281-52898-6

0-19-152673-8

1-4356-7359-X

OCLC:

476243993