Information Structure and Agreement - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Information Structure and Agreement write by Victoria Camacho-Taboada. This book was released on 2013-01-30. Information Structure and Agreement available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This collection consists of thirteen contributions focusing on the latest trends of information structure and agreement, couched in the most current developments of Minimalism, Cartography, and Optimality. Some chapters focus on the syntax of information structure in relation with the position occupied by different constituents in the CP domain and their interpretation such as the distinction between contrastive and corrective focus; the inclusion of given information in focus; the interplay of information structure and binding; the relative position of complementisers; and discourse-based constituents in the left periphery. Information structure is also analysed with regards to prominence phenomena at word level. Other chapters deal with the notion of agreement and its role in the syntax of specific constructions such as applicatives, correlatives, or different types of CP like relatives or embedded interrogatives. This selection of papers was originally presented at the 21st Colloquium on Generative Grammar, held at the University of Seville in April 2011.
The Syntax of Information-Structural Agreement
The Syntax of Information-Structural Agreement - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Syntax of Information-Structural Agreement write by Johannes Mursell. This book was released on 2021-09-15. The Syntax of Information-Structural Agreement available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Agree to Agree
Agree to Agree - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Agree to Agree write by Peter W. Smith. This book was released on 2020. Agree to Agree available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Agreement is a pervasive phenomenon across natural languages. Depending on one’s definition of what constitutes agreement, it is either found in virtually every natural language that we know of, or it is at least found in a great many. Either way, it seems to be a core part of the system that underpins our syntactic knowledge. Since the introduction of the operation of Agree in Chomsky (2000), agreement phenomena and the mechanism that underlies agreement have garnered a lot of attention in the Minimalist literature and have received different theoretical treatments at different stages. Since then, many different phenomena involving dependencies between elements in syntax, including movement or not, have been accounted for using Agree. The mechanism of Agree thus provides a powerful tool to model dependencies between syntactic elements far beyond φ-feature agreement. The articles collected in this volume further explore these topics and contribute to the ongoing debates surrounding agreement. The authors gathered in this book are internationally reknown experts in the field of Agreement.
Agreement in Natural Language
Agreement in Natural Language - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Agreement in Natural Language write by Center for the Study of Language and Information (U.S.). This book was released on 1988-07. Agreement in Natural Language available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Although grammatical agreement or concord is widespread in human languages, linguistic theorists have generally treated agreement phenomena as secondary or even marginal. All the papers in this volume, however, take agreement phenomena seriously, as presenting either a general issue in theory construction or a descriptive problem in particular types of languages. The theoretical perspectives range from purportedly theory-neutral typological frameworks to assumptions about the validity of one or another current formal model. Further, the degree of generality ranges from a universalist nature-of-human-language agenda to concern with one or another aspect of grammatical agreement or with agreement in a single language or language group.
Objects and Information Structure
Objects and Information Structure - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Objects and Information Structure write by Mary Dalrymple. This book was released on 2011-06-02. Objects and Information Structure available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A cross-linguistic study of how objects are affected by information structure.
