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Autore: | Mursell Johannes |
Titolo: | The syntax of information-structural agreement / Johannes Mursell |
Pubblicazione: | Amsterdam ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins, [2021] |
©2021 | |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (294 pages) |
Disciplina: | 415 |
Soggetto topico: | Grammar, Comparative and general - Syntax |
Discourse markers | |
Grammar, Comparative and general - Particles | |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
Sommario/riassunto: | "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"-- |
Titolo autorizzato: | Syntax of information-structural agreement |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910827044503321 |
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