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    • Publisher OUP Oxford
    • Date of Publication 28 September 2006

    • ISBN 9780199285730
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages358 pages
    • Size 241x165x27 mm
    • Weight 693 g
    • Language English
    • Illustrations figures and tables
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    Short description:

    This book explores the role of agreement morphology in the morphosyntactic realization of a verb's arguments. It examines the differences and parallels between configurational and nonconfigurational languages, languages that allow pronoun drop only in particular constructions, and languages which always require overt syntactic determiner phrases as arguments. These and related issues are explored in the context of a wide range of languages. The book will interest linguists at graduate level and above concerned with morphosyntactic theory, typology, and the interactions of syntax and morphology in different languages.

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    Long description:

    This book brings together new work by leading syntactic theorists from the USA and Europe on a central aspect of syntactic and morphological theory: it explores the role of agreement morphology in the morphosyntactic realization of a verb's arguments. The authors examine the differences and parallels between nonconfigurational, pronominal- agreement languages; configurational languages which allow pronoun drop (for example, "Is coming" for "He is coming"); languages that allow pronoun drop in particular constructions only; and languages which always require overt syntactic determiner phrases as arguments. The book considers whether the morphological properties of agreement play a role in determining which of these types a language belongs to and how far languages differ with respect to the argumental status of their agreement and syntactic determiner phrases. The authors explore these and related issues and problems in the context of a wide range of languages. Their book will interest linguists at graduate level and above concerned with morphosyntactic theory, linguistic typology, and the interactions of syntax and morphology in different languages.

    I would highly recommend this book to anyone interested in the state of the art in Minimalist theorizing on agreement and null subjects.

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    Table of Contents:

    The Role of Agreement in the Expression of Arguments
    Part I The Agreement - Pro Drop Connection
    Economy, Agreement, and the Representation of Null Arguments
    Deriving the Diference Between Full and Partial Pro Drop
    Agreement, Pro, and Imperatives
    Part II Microvariation i Pro Drop Languages
    Uniform and Non-Uniform Aspects of Pro-Drop Languages
    Assymetrical Pro Drop
    Part III Interpreting Empty Arguments
    Agreement Phenomena in Sign Language of the Netherlands
    "Arbitrary" Pro and the Theory of Pro Drop
    Part IV Nonconfigurationality
    The Pronominal Argument Parameter
    On Zero Agreement and Polysynthesis

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