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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784702003321

Titolo

Arguments and agreement [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Peter Ackema ... [et al.]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2006

ISBN

1-383-04310-8

1-280-75249-1

0-19-151591-4

1-4294-6868-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (358 p.)

Collana

Oxford linguistics

Altri autori (Persone)

AckemaPeter <1965->

Disciplina

415

Soggetti

Grammar, Comparative and general - Agreement

Grammar, Comparative and general - Syntax

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [321]-342) and index.

Nota di contenuto

The role of agreement in the expression of arguments / Peter Ackema, Patrick Brandt, Maaike Schoorlemmer, and Fred Weerman -- Economy, agreement, and the representation of null arguments / Margaret Speas -- Deriving the difference between full and partial pro-drop / Olaf Koeneman -- Agreement, pro, and imperatives / Hans Bennis -- Uniform and non-uniform aspects of pro-drop languages / Artemis Alexiadou -- Asymmetrical pro-drop in northern Italian dialects / Cecilia Poletto -- Agreement phenomena in sign language of the Netherlands / Inge Zwitserlood  and Ingeborg van Gijn -- 'Arbitrary' pro and the theory of pro-drop / Patricia Cabredo Hofherr -- The pronominal argument parameter / Eloise Jelinek -- On zero agreement and polysynthesis / Mark C. Baker.

Sommario/riassunto

This book explores the role of agreement morphology in the morphosyntactic realization of a verb's arguments. It examines the differences and parallels between configurational and nonconfigurational languages, languages that allow pronoun drop only in particular constructions, and languages which always require overt syntactic determiner phrases as arguments. These and related issues are explored in the context of a wide range of languages. The book will



interest linguists at. graduate level and above concerned with morphosyntactic theory, typology, and the interactions of syntax and morpholog