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

• Autore: Ouali Hamid
• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York, : Continuum International Pub. Group, 2010
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (199 p.)
• Disciplina: 493/.335
• Soggetto topico: Amazigh - Morocco; Tamazight language - Grammar
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Agreement, pronominal clitics and negation in Tamazight Berber
• ISBN: 1-283-00434-8; 9786613004345; 1-4411-1936-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910807192003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Continuum Studies in Theoretical Linguistics