Case and Agreement from Fringe to Core : A Minimalist Approach
Case and Agreement from Fringe to Core : A Minimalist Approach
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Author(s): Keine, Stefan (Corporate)
ISBN No.: 9783110234398
Pages: 240
Year: 201008
Format: Trade Cloth (Hard Cover)
Price: $ 302.22
Dispatch delay: Dispatched between 7 to 15 days
Status: Available

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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