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1 online resource (xi, 335 pages) |
| Series |
Linguistik aktuell = Linguistics today, 0166-0829 ; v. 81 |
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Linguistik aktuell ; Bd. 81.
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| Contents |
The Rise of Agreement -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- Notes for the reader and list of abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1.1. The grammaticalization of verbal agreement markers -- 1.2. Previous accounts -- 1.2.1. NP-detachment (Givón 1976) -- 1.2.2. Accessibility theory (Ariel 2000) -- 1.2.3. Reanalysis of focus shells (Simpson & Wu 2002) -- 1.2.4. Section summary -- 1.3. Outline of the Book -- Notes -- Theoretical preliminaries -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. Minimalist syntax -- 2.3. Distributed Morphology |
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2.4. Language change: A generative perspective -- 2.5. Grammaticalization -- 2.6. Summary -- Notes -- The structural design of agreement -- 3.1. Introduction -- 3.2. The phrase-structural representation of agreement -- 3.2.1. Conceptual arguments -- 3.2.2. Evidence from word order facts -- 3.2.3. The morphological realization of agreement -- 3.3. The structural relation involved in feature matching -- 3.4. Syntactic approaches to word formation -- 3.5. Interim summary: The design of agreement -- 3.6. Toward a realizational theory of agreement |
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3.6.1. The structural representation of agreement morphemes -- 3.6.2. Feature matching under closest c-command -- 3.6.3. Agreement and word formation -- 3.6.4. Section summary -- 3.7. Multiple agreement: Inflected complementizers in Germanic -- 3.7.1. Previous accounts of complementizer agreement -- 3.7.2. A Late Insertion account of complementizer agreement -- 3.8. Conclusion -- Notes -- The transition from pronoun to inflectional marker -- 4.1. Introduction -- 4.2. Telling apart clitics and agreement markers -- 4.2.1. Syntactic criteria -- 4.2.2. Morphological criteria |
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4.3. Syntactic preconditions for the rise of agreement -- 4.4. Paths toward agreement I: Infl-oriented clitics -- 4.5. Paths toward agreement II: C-oriented clitics -- 4.6. Summary -- Notes -- The reanalysis of C-oriented clitics -- 5.1. Introduction -- 5.2. Bavarian -- 5.2.1. The diachronic development of Agr-on-C in Bavarian -- 5.2.2. Clitics, V2, and the rise of agreement -- 5.2.3. Developments in other German varieties -- 5.2.4. Section summary -- 5.3. Rhaeto-Romance -- 5.3.1. A grammatical sketch of the Swiss Rhaeto-Romance dialects |
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5.3.2. Earlier grammaticalization processes affecting enclitic pronouns -- 5.3.3. Clitic doubling and the rise of agreement -- 5.3.4. The reanalysis of emphatic doubling structures -- 5.3.5. Section summary -- 5.4. Reanalysis of C-oriented clitics in non-V2 languages -- 5.4.1. Uto-Aztecan -- 5.4.2. Mongolian -- 5.5. Conclusion -- Notes -- Morphological blocking and the rise of agreement -- 6.1. Introduction -- 6.2. The Blocking Principle -- 6.2.1. The rise of new verbal agreement endings in Bavarian -- 6.2.2. Morphological blocking versus analogical leveling |
| Summary |
This book investigates the historical paths leading from pronouns to markers of verbal agreement and proposes a unified formal account of this grammaticalization process. In opposition to beliefs widely held in the literature, it is argued that new agreement formatives can be coined in a multitude of syntactic environments. Still, the individual paths toward agreement are shown to exhibit a set of underlying similarities which are attributed to universal principles that govern the reanalysis of pronominal clitics as exponents of verbal agreement across languages. It is claimed that syntactic p |
| Notes |
Rev. version of the author's doctoral dissertation (Frankfort), 2004 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
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English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Agreement.
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Verb.
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Grammaticalization.
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Historical linguistics.
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Inflection.
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historical linguistics.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Grammar & Punctuation.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Syntax.
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Agreement
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Grammaticalization
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Inflection
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Verb
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Historical linguistics
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Congruentie (taalkunde)
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Werkwoorden.
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Vervoegingen.
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Grammaticalisering.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9789027294142 |
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9027294143 |
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9789027228055 |
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9027228051 |
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1282156438 |
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9781282156432 |
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9786612156434 |
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6612156430 |
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