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Record Nr.

UNINA9910810482303321

Titolo

Arguments and agreement / / edited by Peter Ackema, Patrick Brandt, Maaike Schoorlemmer, & Fred Weerman [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , 2023

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

Oxford scholarship online

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

Formerly CIP.

Previously issued in print: 2006.

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 text explores the role of agreement morphology in the morphosyntactic realization of a verb's arguments. It compares configurational and nonconfigurational languages and should be useful to linguists concerned with morphosyntactic theory, typology, and the interactions of syntax.