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UNINA9910784513903321 |
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Autore |
Baker Mark C. |
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Titolo |
The syntax of agreement and concord / / Mark C. Baker [[electronic resource]] |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2008 |
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ISBN |
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1-107-17681-6 |
1-281-25447-9 |
9786611254476 |
0-511-38785-7 |
0-511-38686-9 |
0-511-38503-X |
0-511-38316-9 |
0-511-61983-9 |
0-511-38884-5 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xviii, 273 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Collana |
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Cambridge studies in linguistics ; ; 115 |
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Classificazione |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Grammar, Comparative and general - Agreement |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 254-263) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations and conventions; 1 Introduction: category distinctions as a window on the theory of agreement; 2 Basic agreement and category distinctions; 3 The unity of verbal and adjectival agreement; 4 Explaining the restriction on person agreement; 5 Parameters of agreement; Appendix: Table of languages and their agreement properties; References; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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'Agreement' is the grammatical phenomenon in which the form of one item, such as the noun 'horses', forces a second item in the sentence, such as the verb 'gallop', to appear in a particular form, i.e. 'gallop' must agree with 'horses' in number. Even though agreement phenomena are some of the most familiar and well-studied aspects of grammar, there are certain basic questions that have rarely been asked, let alone answered. This book develops a theory of the agreement |
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