Full Description
This volume draws on insights from a range of theoretical perspectives to explore objects, agreement, and their intersecting angles, based on novel data from multiple language families. The recent expansion of agreement theories has revealed new ways of integrating phenomena that affect objects and their relational and featural properties with conventional object markers, under a single 'agreement' umbrella. The contributions to this book present the major advances in these new angles of research into object agreement, and highlight in particular the shared conditions on objects undergoing agreement that are attested in a large number of genetically unrelated languages and language modalities. Following a detailed introduction, the chapters are organized into four parts that explore respectively the mechanics of object agreement, constraints on symmetry, features of object agreement, and issues relating to the left periphery. The volume's findings and the novel questions that they raise will be of interest to theoretical linguists, typologists, sign language researchers, and anyone working on the theoretical analysis of Amazonian, Bantu, Romance, Semitic, and Slavic languages.
Contents
Preface
List of abbreviations
The contributors
1: Jana Willer-Gold: Introduction: Objects, agreement, and their intersecting angles
Part I. Mechanics of object agreement
2: Mark C. Baker: Agree without agreement in object clitic doubling constructions
3: Vicki Carstens: Addressee agreement and clitic-raising in Kiunguja Swahili: Unlocking &P
4: Tanmoy Bhattacharya and Jyoti Sharma: A morphosyntactic account of agreement in Mara
5: Kristina Riedel: Object marking in Bantu: Reassessing agreement
Part II. Constraints on symmetry
6: Jason Overfelt: Asymmetrical symmetry in Tigrinya object marking
7: Maud Devos and Rozenn Guérois: Micro-variation in object marking in North-Mozambican Bantu languages
8: Marina Milkovi'c and Ronnie Wilbur: Agreement marking in Croatian Sign Language: A new view on 'odd' agreement
Part III. Features of object agreement
9: Markus Steinbach: Differential object marking in sign languages? Restrictions on (object) agreement in German Sign Language
10: Monica Alexandrina Irimia and Eva-Maria Roessler: DOM and other object marking strategies: More on the problem of complex licensers
11: Jana Willer-Gold and Anita Peti-Stanti'c: A multiple-agreement approach to auxiliary clitic drop in Croatian
Part IV. The left periphery
12: Simone De Cia: Topicality and object-past participle agreement in Friulian
13: Barbara Sonnenhauser and Paul Widmer: Object clause indexing in Albanian
14: Martina Gra%canin-Yuksek: Agreement in Turkish relative clauses
References
Index
