UID:
edocfu_9959235981802883
Format:
1 online resource (240 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-282-88505-7
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9786612885051
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3-11-023440-8
Series Statement:
Linguistische Arbeiten, 536
Content:
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.
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Preface --
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Abbreviations --
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1. Introduction --
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2. Theoretical Background --
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3. The Input to Agree --
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4. Eccentric Agreement --
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5. Icelandic Nominative Objects --
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6. Global Case Splits --
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7. Ξ-Impoverishment --
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8. Concluding Remarks --
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Backmatter
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Issued also in print.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 3-11-023439-4
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
DOI:
10.1515/9783110234404
