Syntax of Agreement and Concord

Informationen zum Autor MARK C. BAKER is a Professor in the Department of Linguistics and Center for Cognitive Science at Rutgers University. Klappentext Discusses the agreement processes found in language and considers why verbs agree with subjects in person! adjectives agree in number and gender but not person! and nouns do not agree at all. Explaining these differences leads to a theory that can be applied to all parts of speech and language. Zusammenfassung Discusses the agreement processes found in language and considers why verbs agree with subjects in person! adjectives agree in number and gender but not person! and nouns do not agree at all. Explaining these differences leads to a theory that can be applied to all parts of speech and language. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction: category distinctions as a window on the theory of agreement; 2. Basic agreement and category distinctions; 3. The unity of verbal and adjectival agreement; 4. Explaining the restriction on person agreement; 5. Parameters of agreement.

Product details

• Authors: Mark C. Baker, Mark C. (Rutgers University Baker
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.02.2008
• EAN: 9780521671569
• ISBN: 978-0-521-67156-9
• No. of pages: 292
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Linguistics; Cambridge Studies in Linguisti; Cambridge Studies in Linguistics
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies