Author : Stefan Keine
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110234408
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)
Book Synopsis Case and Agreement from Fringe to Core by : Stefan Keine
Download or read book Case and Agreement from Fringe to Core written by Stefan Keine and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2010-09-27 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the view that impoverishment and Agree operations are part of a single grammatical component. The architecture set forth here gives rise tocomplex but highly systematic interactions between the two operations. This interaction is shown to provide a unified and general account of apparentlydiverse and unrelated intances of eccentric argument encoding that so far haveremained elusive to a unified theoretical account. The proposed view of the grammatical architecture achieves an integration of these phenomena withinbetter-studied languages and thus gives rise to a more general theory of caseand agreement phenomena. The empirical evidence on the basis of which the proposal is developed drawsfrom a wide range of typologically non-related languages, including Basque, Hindi, Icelandic, Itelmen, Marathi, Nez Perce, Niuean, Punjabi, Sahaptin, Selayarese, Yukaghir, and Yurok . The proposal has far-reaching consequences for the study of grammatical architecture, linguistic interfaces, derivational locality in apparently non-local dependencies and the role of functional considerations in formal approaches tothe human language faculty.