Arguments and Agreement - Hardcover

Ackema, Peter; Brandt, Patrick; Schoorlemmer, Maaike; Weermann, Fred

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 019928573X ISBN 13: 9780199285730

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2006

Synopsis

This book explores the role of agreement morphology in the morphosyntactic realization of a verb's arguments. It examines the differences and parallels between configurational and nonconfigurational languages, languages that allow pronoun drop only in particular constructions, and languages which always require overt syntactic determiner phrases as arguments. These and related issues are explored in the context of a wide range of languages. The book will interest linguists at graduate level and above concerned with morphosyntactic theory, typology, and the interactions of syntax and morphology in different languages.

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About the Author

Peter Ackema is Lecturer in Linguistics at the University of Edinburgh. He is the author of Issues in Morphosyntax (John Benjamins, 1999) and co-author with Ad Neeleman of Beyond Morphology (OUP, 2004). Patrick Brandt is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Cognitive Linguistics at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University. Maaike Schoorlemmer is Assistant Professor at the Utrecht Institute of Linguistics. Fred Weerman is Professor of Dutch Linguistics at the University of Amsterdam. He is the author of The V2 Conspiracy (Foris, 1989) and co-author with Ad Neeleman of Flexible Syntax (Kluwer, 1999).

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 019928573X
• ISBN 13: 9780199285730
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 358