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Record Nr.

UNINA9910807192003321

Autore

Ouali Hamid

Titolo

Agreement, pronominal clitics and negation in Tamazight Berber [[electronic resource] ] : a unified analysis / / Hamid Ouali

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Continuum International Pub. Group, 2010

ISBN

1-283-00434-8

9786613004345

1-4411-1936-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (199 p.)

Collana

Continuum studies in theoretical linguistics

Disciplina

493/.335

Soggetti

Amazigh - Morocco

Tamazight language - Grammar

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; Symbols and Abbreviations; Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Background on the Berber Language; Chapter 3 Agreement: From GB to Minimalism; Chapter 4 Tamazight Verb Morphology and Clause Structure; Chapter 5 Subject-Verb Agreement and Agreement Suppression Effects; Chapter 6 Object Pronominal Clitics; Chapter 7 Clitic Doubling; Chapter 8 Negative Concord; Chapter 9 Agreement Suppression Effects and Unification via Agree; Chapter 10 Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book presents a study of various important aspects of Tamazight Berber syntax within the generative tradition.  Work on Berber linguistics from a generative perspective remains in many ways uncharted territory.  There has been hardly any published research on this language and its different dialects, especially in English -- this book fills some of these gaps and lays down the foundations for further research. Ouali looks at three seemingly disparate ranges of syntactic phenomena, namely Subject-verb agreement, Clitic-doubling and Negative Concord.  These phenomena have received different