Agreement, pronominal clitics and negation in Tamazight Berber : a unified analysis / Hamid Ouali.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ouali, Hamid.

Series:

Continuum Studies in Theoretical Linguistics

Continuum studies in theoretical linguistics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Berbers--Morocco.

Berbers.

Tamazight language--Grammar.

Tamazight language.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (199 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Continuum International Pub. Group, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book presents a study of various important aspects of Tamazight Berber syntax within the generative tradition. Work on Berber linguistics from a generative perspective remains in many ways uncharted territory. There has been hardly any published research on this language and its different dialects, especially in English -- this book fills some of these gaps and lays down the foundations for further research. Ouali looks at three seemingly disparate ranges of syntactic phenomena, namely Subject-verb agreement, Clitic-doubling and Negative Concord. These phenomena have received different

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; Symbols and Abbreviations; Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Background on the Berber Language; Chapter 3 Agreement: From GB to Minimalism; Chapter 4 Tamazight Verb Morphology and Clause Structure; Chapter 5 Subject-Verb Agreement and Agreement Suppression Effects; Chapter 6 Object Pronominal Clitics; Chapter 7 Clitic Doubling; Chapter 8 Negative Concord; Chapter 9 Agreement Suppression Effects and Unification via Agree; Chapter 10 Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613004345

9781283004343

1283004348

9781441119360

1441119361

OCLC:

703137735