Agreement from a Diachronic Perspective / / ed. by Jürg Fleischer, Elisabeth Rieken, Paul Widmer.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2015 Part 1
• MitwirkendeR: Bickel, Balthasar (University of Zurich, Switzerland),; Brosch, Cyril (University of Leipzig, Germany),; Corbett, Greville G.(University of Surrey, UK),; Dammel, Antje (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Germany),; Enger, Hans-Olav(University of Oslo),; Fleischer, Jürg (Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany),; Griffith, Aaron (University of Vienna, Austria),; Iemmolo, Giorgio (University of Zurich, Switzerland),; Jerro, Kyle (University of Texas at Austin, USA),; Loporcaro, Michele (University of Zurich, Switzerland),; Nübling, Damaris (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Germany),; Rieken, Elisabeth (Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany),; Souag, Lameen (Le Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris, France (CNRS)),; Vos, Lien De (Université de Liège, Belgium),; Wechsler, Stephen (University of Texas at Austin, USA),; Widmer, Manuel (University of Zurich, Switzerland),; Widmer, Paul (University of Zurich, Switzerland),; Witzlack-Makarevich, Alena (Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Germany),; Zakharko, Taras (University of Zurich, Switzerland),; Þórhallsdóttir, Guðrún (University of Iceland),
• HerausgeberIn: Fleischer, Jürg,; Rieken, Elisabeth,; Widmer, Paul,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , 287
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (355 p.)

The contents of the present volume will enhance our understanding of the diachrony of agreement systems and provide a useful starting point for future studies on this both fascinating and intricate field of research.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Editors’ preface -- Contents -- Introduction: the diachrony of agreement -- Part 1: Verbal and adpositional agreement -- Exploring diachronic universals of agreement: alignment patterns and zero marking across person categories -- The transformation of verb agreement into epistemic marking: evidence from Tibeto-Burman -- How to make a comitative preposition agree it-with its external argument: Songhay and the typology of conjunction and agreement -- Part 2: (Pro)nominal agreement -- The impact of morphology on change in agreement systems -- Pronominal gender agreement: a salience-based competition -- Person-marked quantifiers in Kinyarwanda -- Degrees of Agreement in Old Irish -- Part 3: Mismatch constellations and resolution contexts -- Hybrid nouns and their complexity -- When friends and teachers become hybrids (even more than they were) -- Between feminine and neuter, between semantic and pragmatic gender: hybrid names in German dialects and in Luxembourgish -- Gender agreement in 19th- and 20th-century Icelandic -- One plus one make(s) – what? -- Agreement patterns of coordinations in Hittite -- Index of languages -- Index of subjects