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

Wechsler, Stephen; Zlatic, Larisa

ISBN 10: 1575864185 / ISBN 13: 9781575864181

Published by Center for the Study of Language and Information, 2003

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Fine contents and binding; appears unread. Part of the Stanford Monographs in Linguistics series.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Many Faces of Agreement: Morphology, Syntax, Semantics, and Discourse Factors in Serbo-Croatian Agreement
• Publisher: Center for the Study of Language and Information
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1575864185
• ISBN 13: 9781575864181
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Science and Technology

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Synopsis

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.