Acknowledgements; Preface; Symbols and Abbreviations; Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Background on the Berber Language; Chapter 3 Agreement: From GB to Minimalism; Chapter 4 Tamazight Verb Morphology and Clause Structure; Chapter 5 Subject-Verb Agreement and Agreement Suppression Effects; Chapter 6 Object Pronominal Clitics; Chapter 7 Clitic Doubling; Chapter 8 Negative Concord; Chapter 9 Agreement Suppression Effects and Unification via Agree; Chapter 10 Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary
This book presents a study of various important aspects of Tamazight Berber syntax within the generative tradition. Work on Berber linguistics from a generative perspective remains in many ways uncharted territory. There has been hardly any published research on this language and its different dialects, especially in English -- this book fills some of these gaps and lays down the foundations for further research. Ouali looks at three seemingly disparate ranges of syntactic phenomena, namely Subject-verb agreement, Clitic-doubling and Negative Concord. These phenomena have received different
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-188) and index
