The design of agreement : evidence from Chamorro

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The design of agreement : evidence from Chamorro

Sandra Chung

University of Chicago Press, 1998

  • : cloth
  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 403-416) and index

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: cloth ISBN 9780226106076

内容説明

This text shows that two distinct forms of agreement must be recognized in linguistic theory. Sandra Chung demonstrates that in addition to what she calls Feature Compatibility - the relation that lies behind morphological agreement, such as subject-verb agreement in English - there is an abstract syntactic relation, the "Associate" relation, which holds between categories in a range of syntactic constructions. The primary source of evidence is Chamorro, a language of the Austro-nesian family spoken on Guam and Saipan. Chung relates her analyses to what is known about analogous constructions in English, Italian, Irish, Japanese, Maori, and various other languages. This text is a step in the effort to uncover the fundamental building blocks that serve to organize natural language systems. The study of agreement and its connection to the rest of grammar is a striking contribution to linguistic theory.

目次

Acknowledgments 1: Introduction 2: The Surface Design of Chamorro 3: Configurationality 4: On Deriving VSO 5: A Syntactic Agreement Relation 6: The Morphology of Extraction 7: Topic and Focus 8: Syntactic Agreement and Locality 9: Adjunct Extraction 10: On the Design of Agreement App. A: Orthography App. B: Morpheme-by-Morpheme Glosses App. C. Sources Notes References Index
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: pbk ISBN 9780226106090

内容説明

This text shows that two distinct forms of agreement must be recognized in linguistic theory. Sandra Chung demonstrates that in addition to what she calls Feature Compatibility - the relation that lies behind morphological agreement, such as subject-verb agreement in English - there is an abstract syntactic relation, the "Associate" relation, which holds between categories in a range of syntactic constructions. The primary source of evidence is Chamorro, a language of the Austro-nesian family spoken on Guam and Saipan. Chung relates her analyses to what is known about analogous constructions in English, Italian, Irish, Japanese, Maori, and various other languages. This text is a step in the effort to uncover the fundamental building blocks that serve to organize natural language systems. The study of agreement and its connection to the rest of grammar is a striking contribution to linguistic theory.

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