Verbal Agreement and the Grammar behind its 'Breakdown' : : Minimalist feature checking /

Verbal Agreement and the Grammar behind its 'Breakdown' : : Minimalist feature checking / / Elly van Gelderen.

Show other versions (1)

This book is about what the 'lack' of agreement indicates about the structure of language. Rather than assuming that mistakes occur in languages, disagreement can be seen as an indication of a certain structural relationship. In a Minimalist framework, the partial agreement or complete lac...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Linguistics and Semiotics 1990 - 1999
VerfasserIn:
Gelderen, Elly van,
Place / Publishing House:Tübingen : : Max Niemeyer Verlag, , [2011]
©1997
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
Series:Linguistische Arbeiten , 364
Online Access:
Physical Description:1 online resource (222 p.)
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Table of Contents:
  • I-XIV
  • Introduction
  • 1 Lack of Agreement with Verb Subject I: Empty Expletives
  • 2 Past Participle Agreement: Lack of Agreement with Verb Object
  • 3 Lack of Agreement with Verb Subject II: Government
  • 4 Lack of Agreement in Wh-Structures
  • 5 The History of There
  • 6 There-Expletives
  • 7 Expletive It
  • 8 Argument It: with and without Features
  • 9 Indefinites: The Grammaticalization of Nouns
  • 10 Coordinated Structures
  • 11 Conclusion: Further Issues Regarding Agreement
  • References
  • Index of Authors
  • Index of Subjects

Similar Items