Case and Agreement from Fringe to Core : : A Minimalist Approach / / Stefan Keine.
This book explores the view that impoverishment and Agree operations are part of a single grammatical component. The architecture set forth here gives rise tocomplex but highly systematic interactions between the two operations. This interaction is shown to provide a unified and general account of a...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2010] ©2010 |
Year of Publication: | 2010 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Linguistische Arbeiten ,
536 |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (228 p.) :; Figs. and tabs. |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Theoretical Background -- 3. The Input to Agree -- 4. Eccentric Agreement -- 5. Icelandic Nominative Objects -- 6. Global Case Splits -- 7. Ξ-Impoverishment -- 8. Concluding Remarks -- Backmatter |
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Summary: | This book explores the view that impoverishment and Agree operations are part of a single grammatical component. The architecture set forth here gives rise tocomplex but highly systematic interactions between the two operations. This interaction is shown to provide a unified and general account of apparentlydiverse and unrelated intances of eccentric argument encoding that so far haveremained elusive to a unified theoretical account. The proposed view of the grammatical architecture achieves an integration of these phenomena withinbetter-studied languages and thus gives rise to a more general theory of caseand agreement phenomena. The empirical evidence on the basis of which the proposal is developed drawsfrom a wide range of typologically non-related languages, including Basque, Hindi, Icelandic, Itelmen, Marathi, Nez Perce, Niuean, Punjabi, Sahaptin, Selayarese, Yukaghir, and Yurok . The proposal has far-reaching consequences for the study of grammatical architecture, linguistic interfaces, derivational locality in apparently non-local dependencies and the role of functional considerations in formal approaches tothe human language faculty. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9783110234404 9783110238570 9783110238457 9783110636970 9783110233544 9783110233551 9783110233568 9783110233605 |
ISSN: | 0344-6727 ; |
DOI: | 10.1515/9783110234404 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Stefan Keine. |