02902nam 2200481 450 991082704450332120231110223448.0(CKB)4100000012003874(MiAaPQ)EBC6733931(Au-PeEL)EBL6733931(OCoLC)1256588687(EXLCZ)99410000001200387420220624d2021 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrier<<The>> syntax of information-structural agreementJohannes MursellAmsterdamPhiladelphiaJohn Benjamins[2021]©20211 online resource (294 pages)Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today ;v.26890-272-5973-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.Theoretical background -- Long distance agreement -- Object marking in Swahili -- Subject marking in Tagalog -- Focus particles in Lavukaleve -- Association with focus : general discussion -- Association with focus in German."In this research monograph, Johannes Mursell discusses the syntactic impact of information-structural features on agreement. So far, the syntactic contribution of this type of feature has mostly been reduced to movement of topics or foci clause-initial position. Here, the author looks at a different phenomenon, syntactic agreement, and how this process can be dependent on information-structural properties. Based partly on original fieldwork from a typologically diverse set of languages, including Tagalog, Swahili, and Lavukaleve, it is argued that for most areas for which information-structural features have been discussed, it is possible to find cases where these features influence phi-feature agreement. The analysis is then extended to cases of Association with Focus, which does not involve phi-features but can still be accounted for with agreement of information-structural features. The book achieves two main goals: first it provides a uniform analysis for different constructions in unrelated languages. Second, it also gives a new argument that information-structural features should be treated as genuine syntactic features"--Provided by publisher.Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today Grammar, Comparative and generalSyntaxDiscourse markersGrammar, Comparative and generalParticlesGrammar, Comparative and generalSyntax.Discourse markers.Grammar, Comparative and generalParticles.415Mursell Johannes1629680MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910827044503321Syntax of information-structural agreement3967563UNINA