Cross-Linguistic Studies of Imposters and Pronominal Agreement

Explores verbal and pronominal agreement with imposters from a cross-linguistic perspective. Contributions describe imposters in Bangla, Spanish, Albanian, Indonesian, Italian, French, Romanian, Mandarin and Icelandic.

List of contents

• 1. Introduction


• Chris Collins


• 2. (Il)-licit Pronoun-Antecedent Relations in Bangla


• Satarupa Das


• 3. Spanish Imposters and Verbal Agreement


• Rachel Dudley


• 4. Some Observations on Imposters in Albanian


• Dalina Kallulli


• 5. The Syntax of Indonesian Imposters


• Daniel Kaufman


• 6. Imposters and Secondary Sources in Italian


• Emilio Servidio


• 7. Person Imposters: The View from Two Romance Languages


• Gabriela Soare


• 8. Mandarin Pseudo-Imposters


• Arthur Wang


• 9. Icelandic Verbal Agreement and Pronoun-Antecedent Relations


• Jim Wood and Einar Freyr Sigurðsson


• 10. Indefinite Imposters


• Violeta Vázquez Rojas

About the author

Chris Collins is a professor in the Department of Linguistics at New York University. He received his Ph.D. in linguistics from MIT in 1993. He specializes syntactic theory, including the syntax of English and the syntax of African languages.

Summary

Explores verbal and pronominal agreement with imposters from a cross-linguistic perspective. Contributions describe imposters in Bangla, Spanish, Albanian, Indonesian, Italian, French, Romanian, Mandarin and Icelandic.

Product details

• Authors: Chris Collins
• Assisted by: Chris Collins (Editor), Chris (Professor of Linguistics Collins (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.05.2014
• EAN: 9780199336869
• ISBN: 978-0-19-933686-9
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax; Oxford Studies in Comparative
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Semantics & pragmatics