Details

Subject(s)

• Grammar, Comparative and general—Agreement [Browse]

Editor

• Nevins, Andrew [Browse]

Related name

• Oxford Academic [Browse]

Series

• Oxford studies in theoretical linguistics ; 81. [More in this series]
• Oxford studies in theoretical linguistics ; 81 [More in this series]

Summary note

This volume draws on insights from a range of theoretical perspectives to explore objects, agreement, and their intersecting angles, based on novel data from multiple language families. The recent expansion of agreement theories has revealed new ways of integrating phenomena that affect objects and their relational and featural properties with conventional object markers, under a single 'agreement' umbrella. The contributions to this book present the major advancesin these new angles of research into object agreement, and highlight in particular the shared conditions on objects undergoing agreement that are attested in a large number of genetically unrelated languages and language modalities. Following a detailed introduction, the chapters are organized intofour parts that explore respectively the mechanics of object agreement, constraints on symmetry, features of object agreement, and issues relating to the left periphery. The volume's findings and the novel questions that they raise will be of interest to theoretical linguists, typologists, sign language researchers, and anyone working on the theoretical analysis of Amazonian, Bantu, Romance, Semitic, and Slavic languages.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Reproduction note

Electronic reproduction. Oxford Available via World Wide Web.

Source of description

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 28, 2022).

ISBN

• 9780191924187 (electronic book)
• 0191924180 (electronic book)
• 9780192652423 (electronic book)
• 0192652427 (electronic book)

OCLC

1257403737

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