Verbal Agreement and the Grammar behind its 'Breakdown' Minimalist feature checking

This book is about what the 'lack' of agreement indicates about the structure of language. Rather than assuming that mistakes occur in languages, disagreement can be seen as an indication of a certain structural relationship. In a Minimalist framework, the partial agreement or complete lac...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author Gelderen, Elly van
Format eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Germany De Gruyter 2011
Max Niemeyer Verlag
SeriesLinguistische Arbeiten
Subjects
Agreement
Englisch
Generative grammar
Grammar, Comparative and general
Language
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General
Minimalist theory (Linguistics)
Syntaktische Kongruenz
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ISBN9783110959994
3110959992
3484303646
9783484303645
DOI10.1515/9783110959994

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Table of Contents:
  • References --
  • 3 Lack of Agreement with Verb Subject II: Government --
  • 7 Expletive It --
  • 9 Indefinites: The Grammaticalization of Nouns --
  • Index of Subjects
  • 2 Past Participle Agreement: Lack of Agreement with Verb Object --
  • 11 Conclusion: Further Issues Regarding Agreement --
  • 1 Lack of Agreement with Verb Subject I: Empty Expletives --
  • 6 There-Expletives --
  • 10 Coordinated Structures --
  • 8 Argument It: with and without Features --
  • 5 The History of There --
  • I-XIV --
  • Index of Authors --
  • Introduction --
  • 4 Lack of Agreement in Wh-Structures --