The syntax of information-structural agreement / Johannes Mursell

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mursell, Johannes.

Series:

Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today

Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today ; v.268

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Syntax.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Discourse markers.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Particles.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (294 pages)

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins, [2021]

Summary:

"In this research monograph, Johannes Mursell discusses the syntactic impact of information-structural features on agreement. So far, the syntactic contribution of this type of feature has mostly been reduced to movement of topics or foci clause-initial position. Here, the author looks at a different phenomenon, syntactic agreement, and how this process can be dependent on information-structural properties. Based partly on original fieldwork from a typologically diverse set of languages, including Tagalog, Swahili, and Lavukaleve, it is argued that for most areas for which information-structural features have been discussed, it is possible to find cases where these features influence phi-feature agreement. The analysis is then extended to cases of Association with Focus, which does not involve phi-features but can still be accounted for with agreement of information-structural features. The book achieves two main goals: first it provides a uniform analysis for different constructions in unrelated languages. Second, it also gives a new argument that information-structural features should be treated as genuine syntactic features"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Theoretical background

Long distance agreement

Object marking in Swahili

Subject marking in Tagalog

Focus particles in Lavukaleve

Association with focus : general discussion

Association with focus in German.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

OCLC:

1256588687