The Many Faces of Agreement - Morphology, Syntax, Semantics, and Discourse Factors in Serbo-Croatian Agreement

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 agreement processes. The theory even explains the striking cross-linguistic generalizations expressed in Corbetts Agreement Hierarchy. Agreement is shown to be a distributed phenomenon, manifesting its many faces among the various components of grammar.

Product details

• Authors: Wechsler, Stephen Wechsler, Zlatic, Larisa Zlatic
• Publisher: Centre for the Study of Language & Information
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.05.2003
• EAN: 9781575864174
• ISBN: 978-1-57586-417-4
• No. of pages: 200
• Dimensions: 16 mm x 23 mm x 2 mm
• Weight: 454 g
• Series: Stanford Monographs in Linguistics
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics