Case and Agreement from Fringe to Core : : A Minimalist Approach / / Stefan Keine.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• VerfasserIn: Keine, Stefan,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2010]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Series: Linguistische Arbeiten , 536
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (228 p.) :; Figs. and tabs.

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.

Table of Contents

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