Description |
1 online resource (xii, 280 pages). |
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text file |
Series |
Linguistik aktuell/Linguistics today (LA),
0166-0829 ;
volume 268
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Linguistik aktuell ; Bd. 268.
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
Theoretical background -- Long distance agreement -- Object marking in Swahili -- Subject marking in Tagalog -- Focus particles in Lavukaleve -- Association with focus : general discussion -- Association with focus in German. |
Summary |
"In this research monograph, Johannes Mursell discusses the syntactic impact of information-structural features on agreement. So far, the syntactic contribution of this type of feature has mostly been reduced to movement of topics or foci clause-initial position. Here, the author looks at a different phenomenon, syntactic agreement, and how this process can be dependent on information-structural properties. Based partly on original fieldwork from a typologically diverse set of languages, including Tagalog, Swahili, and Lavukaleve, it is argued that for most areas for which information-structural features have been discussed, it is possible to find cases where these features influence phi-feature agreement. The analysis is then extended to cases of Association with Focus, which does not involve phi-features but can still be accounted for with agreement of information-structural features. The book achieves two main goals: first it provides a uniform analysis for different constructions in unrelated languages. Second, it also gives a new argument that information-structural features should be treated as genuine syntactic features"-- Provided by publisher. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Agreement.
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Agreement. |
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax.
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax. |
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Discourse markers.
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Discourse markers. |
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Focus (Linguistics)
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Focus (Linguistics) |
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Particles.
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Particles. |
Other Form: |
Print version: Mursell, Johannes. Syntax of information-structural agreement Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2021] 9789027209139 (DLC) 2021016879 |
ISBN |
9027259739 electronic book |
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9789027259738 (electronic book) |
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9789027209139 hardcover |
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