Keine Case and Agreement from Fringe to Core
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-3-11-023440-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
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A Minimalist Approach
E-Book, Englisch, Band 536, 240 Seiten
Reihe: Linguistische ArbeitenISSN
ISBN: 978-3-11-023440-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark
This book explores the view that impoverishment and Agree operations are part of a single grammatical component. The architecture set forth here gives rise tocomplex but highly systematic interactions between the two operations. This interaction is shown to provide a unified and general account of apparentlydiverse and unrelated intances of eccentric argument encoding that so far haveremained elusive to a unified theoretical account. The proposed view of the grammatical architecture achieves an integration of these phenomena withinbetter-studied languages and thus gives rise to a more general theory of caseand agreement phenomena. The empirical evidence on the basis of which the proposal is developed drawsfrom a wide range of typologically non-related languages, including Basque, Hindi, Icelandic, Itelmen, Marathi, Nez Perce, Niuean, Punjabi, Sahaptin, Selayarese, Yukaghir, and Yurok . The proposal has far-reaching consequences for the study of grammatical architecture, linguistic interfaces, derivational locality in apparently non-local dependencies and the role of functional considerations in formal approaches tothe human language faculty.
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Weitere Infos & Material
1;Contents;6
2;Preface;10
3;Abbreviations;12
4;1. Introduction;14
5;2. Theoretical Background;18
6;3. The Input to Agree;50
7;4. Eccentric Agreement;82
8;5. Icelandic Nominative Objects;120
9;6. Global Case Splits;142
10;7. .-Impoverishment;174
11;8. Concluding Remarks;212
12;References;224
13;Index;238
