基本説明
The status of agreement is a core issue in current morphological and syntactic theory. The collection of papers in this volume focuses on important issues, such as the nature of the relation between syntax and morphology in determining agreement relations; whether and which syntactic configurations are relevant for determining agreement, etc.
Full Description
The status of agreement is a core issue in current morphological and syntactic theory. The collection of papers in this volume focuses on important issues, such as the nature of the relation between syntax and morphology in determining agreement relations; whether and which syntactic configurations are relevant for determining agreement; the relevance of verbal agreement for the purposes of EPP; the inquiry into the existence of connections between verbal and DP-internal agreement; on the morphological and syntactic distinction of person, number and gender agreement; how and why AGREE and Spec,head relations trigger different agreement effects; and the type of relation that exists between head-movement and morphological agreement. The data collected come from a wide variety of languages and the studies presented discuss innovative and thought-provoking ideas for dealing with agreement phenomena.
Contents
1. Introduction (by Costa, Joao); 2. Capeverdean DP-internal number agreement: Additional arguments for a distributed morphology approach (by Castro, Ana); 3. Nominal and verbal agreement in Portuguese: An argument for Distributed Morphology (by Costa, Joao); 4. Proleptic agreement as a good design property (by Corver, Norbert); 5. Anti-agreement: Features and locality (by Csirmaz, Aniko); 6. The acquisition of the standard EPP in Dutch and French (by Kampen, Jacqueline van); 7. A new view on first conjunct agreement: Evidence from Dutch dialects (by Koppen, Marjo van); 8. Agreement: The (unique and local) syntactic and morphological licenser of subject Case (by Kornfilt, Jaklin); 9. Probes: Lack of agreement in Romance (by Mensching, Guido); 10. Syntactic agreement across language modalities: American Sign Language (by Neidle, Carol); 11. On the relation of [gender] Agreement: Evidence from Friulian (by Paoli, Sandra); 12. The (dis)association of Tense, phi-features EPP and nominative Case: Case studies from Romance and Greek (by Sitaridou, Ioanna); 13. Head-Level and Chain-Level constraints on spellout (by Trommer, Jochen); 14. Index
