基本説明
This is the first book to bring together the different strands and styles of research on Phi-features, such as person, number, and gender.
Full Description
Phi-features, such as person, number, and gender, present a rare opportunity for syntacticians, morphologists and semanticists to collaborate on a research enterprise in which they all have an equal stake and which they all approach with data and insights from their own fields. This volume is the first to attempt to bring together these different strands and styles of research. It presents the core questions, major results, and new directions of this emergent area of linguistic theory and shows how Phi Theory casts light on the nature of interfaces and the structure of the grammar. The book will interest scholars and students of all aspects of linguistic theory at graduate level and above.
Contents
1. Why Phi? ; 2. Features on Bound Pronouns ; 3. On the Semantic Markedness of Phi Features ; 4. Phi-Agree and Theta-Related Case ; 5. Conditions on Phi-Agree ; 6. Phi Feature Competition in Morphology and Syntax ; 7. Discontinuous Agreement and the Syntax Morphology Interface ; 8. Third Person Marking in Menominee ; 9. When is a Syncretism More Than a Syncretism? ; 10. Where's Phi? Agreement as a Post Syntactic Operation ; 11. Cross-Modular Parallels in the Study of Phon and Phi
