Person, Case, and Agreement - The Morphosyntax of Inverse Agreement and Global Case Splits

This book provides both language-specific and cross-linguistic comparative analyses of phenomena relating to person, case and case-marking, and agreement. The book combines data from eight different language families with theory and explicit analyses, and will be of interest to both formal and data-oriented linguists and typologists alike.

List of contents

• 1: Person, case, and agreement


• 2: Differential object marking in Hungarian


• 3: Inverse agreement in Hungarian


• 4: Agreement and global case splits: Agreement determining case


• 5: Alignment in transitive clauses: Case determining agreement


• 6: A parameter hierarchy for agreement

About the author

András Bárány studied general and Finno-Ugric linguistics in Vienna and Budapest before moving to the University of Cambridge, where he obtained his PhD in theoretical linguistics. He has since worked at the Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest, Hungary, and at the School of African and Oriental Studies in London.

Summary

This book provides both language-specific and cross-linguistic comparative analyses of phenomena relating to person, case and case-marking, and agreement. The book combines data from eight different language families with theory and explicit analyses, and will be of interest to both formal and data-oriented linguists and typologists alike.

Product details

• Authors: Andras Barany, Andras (Post-Doctoral Researcher Barany, András Bárány
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2017
• EAN: 9780198804185
• ISBN: 978-0-19-880418-5
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; NON-CLASSIFIABLE, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Grammar & Punctuation, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Morphology, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Grammar, syntax and morphology, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics