The Many Faces of Agreement: Morphology, Syntax, Semantics, and Discourse Factors in Serbo-Croatian Agreement

Zlatic, Larisa,Wechsler, Stephen

ISBN 10: 1575864185 / ISBN 13: 9781575864181

Verlag: Center for the Study of Language, 2003

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Titel: The Many Faces of Agreement: Morphology, ...

Verlag: Center for the Study of Language

Erscheinungsdatum: 2003

Einband: Paperback

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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.