The Syntax of Information-Structural Agreement
Seiten
2021
John Benjamins Publishing Co (Verlag)
978-90-272-0913-9 (ISBN)
John Benjamins Publishing Co (Verlag)
978-90-272-0913-9 (ISBN)
In this research monograph, Johannes Mursell discusses the syntactic impact of information-structural features on agreement. So far, the syntactic contribution of this type of feature has mostly been reduced to movement of topics or foci clause-initial position. Here, the author looks at a different phenomenon, syntactic agreement, and how this process can be dependent on information-structural properties. Based partly on original fieldwork from a typologically diverse set of languages, including Tagalog, Swahili, and Lavukaleve, it is argued that for most areas for which information-structural features have been discussed, it is possible to find cases where these features influence phi-feature agreement. The analysis is then extended to cases of Association with Focus, which does not involve phi-features but can still be accounted for with agreement of information-structural features. The book achieves two main goals: first it provides a uniform analysis for different constructions in unrelated languages. Second, it also gives a new argument that information-structural features should be treated as genuine syntactic features.
Erscheinungsdatum | 16.09.2021 |
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Reihe/Serie | Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today ; 268 |
Verlagsort | Amsterdam |
Sprache | englisch |
Gewicht | 660 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft |
ISBN-10 | 90-272-0913-8 / 9027209138 |
ISBN-13 | 978-90-272-0913-9 / 9789027209139 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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