The Syntax of Information-Structural Agreement Hardback
by Johannes (Goethe University Frankfurt) Mursell
Part of the Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today series
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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.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:280 pages
- Publisher:John Benjamins Publishing Co
- Publication Date:22/09/2021
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- ISBN:9789027209139
