The Many Faces of Agreement Morphology, Syntax, Semantics, and Discourse Factors in Serbo-Croatian Agreement |
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| Author:
| Wechsler, Stephen
Zlatic, Larisa |
| Series title: | Stanford Monographs in Linguistics Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-57586-418-1 |
| Publication Date: | May 2003 |
| Publisher: | CSLI Publications/Center for the Study of Language & Information
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $41.95 |
Book Description:
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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...
More DescriptionAgreement 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.