Cross-Linguistic Studies of Imposters and Pronominal Agreement

Erscheinungsjahr 2007
ISBN: 978-0-19-933685-2
Verlag: ACADEMIC

Buch, Englisch, 282 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 590 g

Imposters are third person DPs that are used to refer to the speaker/writer or addressee, such as:

(i) Your humble servant finds the time before our next encounter very long.
(ii) This reporter thinks that the current developments are extraordinary.
(iii) Daddy will be back before too long.
(iv) The present author finds the logic of the reply faulty.

This volume explores verbal and pronominal agreement with imposters from a cross-linguistic perspective. The central questions for any given language are: (a) How do singular and plural imposters agree with the verb? (b) When a pronoun has an imposter antecedent, what are the phi-features of the pronoun? The volume reveals a remarkable degree of variation in the answers to these questions, but also reveals some underlying generalizations. The contributions describe imposters in Bangla, Spanish, Albanian, Indonesian, Italian, French, Romanian, Mandarin and Icelandic.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Collins, Chris

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Semantik & Pragmatik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 1. Introduction

- Chris Collins

- 2. (Il)-licit Pronoun-Antecedent Relations in Bangla

- Satarupa Das

- 3. Spanish Imposters and Verbal Agreement

- Rachel Dudley

- 4. Some Observations on Imposters in Albanian

- Dalina Kallulli

- 5. The Syntax of Indonesian Imposters

- Daniel Kaufman

- 6. Imposters and Secondary Sources in Italian

- Emilio Servidio

- 7. Person Imposters: The View from Two Romance Languages

- Gabriela Soare

- 8. Mandarin Pseudo-Imposters

- Arthur Wang

- 9. Icelandic Verbal Agreement and Pronoun-Antecedent Relations

- Jim Wood and Einar Freyr Sigurðsson

- 10. Indefinite Imposters

- Violeta Vázquez Rojas

Über Autor(innen)

Chris Collins is a professor in the Department of Linguistics at New York University. He received his Ph.D. in linguistics from MIT in 1993. He specializes syntactic theory, including the syntax of English and the syntax of African languages.