The Many Faces of Agreement: Morphology, Syntax, Semantics, and Discourse Factors in Serbo-Croatian Agreement (Stanford Monographs in Linguistics) - Softcover

Wechsler, Stephen; Zlatic, Larisa

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ISBN 10: 1575864185 ISBN 13: 9781575864181

Verlag: Centre for the Study of Language & Information, 2003

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Agreement features correlate closely with semantics as well as with noun morphology. This book presents a precise formal theory of those correlations, illustrated with Serbo-Croatian and other languages. In explaining regular agreement as a network of constraints, the theory also predicts a restricted set of exceptional situations where normal agreement can give way to agreement mismatches. With this framework in place, the authors explore a number of factors that affect agreement processes. The theory even explains the striking cross-linguistic generalizations expressed in Corbett's Agreement Hierarchy. Agreement is shown to be a distributed phenomenon, manifesting its many faces among the various components of grammar.

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• Verlag: Centre for the Study of Language & Information
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1575864185
• ISBN 13: 9781575864181
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 200