Verbal agreement and the grammar behind its breakdown : minimalist feature checking
Rules of agreement, or concord, account for the special relationship between the verb and the 'subject' that exists in most languages. In many traditional grammars, it is taken for granted that this agreement occurs and usually only the cases of 'lack of concord' are discussed. T...
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| Format | eBook Book |
| Language | English |
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Tübingen
Niemeyer
1997
Walter de Gruyter GmbH De Gruyter |
| Edition | 1 |
| Series | Linguistische Arbeiten |
| Online Access | Get full text |
| ISBN | 3484303646 9783484303645 |
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| Summary: | Rules of agreement, or concord, account for the special relationship between the verb and the 'subject' that exists in most languages. In many traditional grammars, it is taken for granted that this agreement occurs and usually only the cases of 'lack of concord' are discussed. The book examines rules accounting for the agreement phenomena (mostly in a recent Chomskian framework) as well as account for the instances where agreement is 'deficient' and show this is due to expletives, word order, coordination and language change. Rather than regard the lack of agreement as 'deficient', it will be considered as indicative of syntactic structure. |
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| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 3484303646 9783484303645 |