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Title: The Syntax of Information-Structural Agreement
Description: In this research monograph, Johannes Mursell discusses the syntactic impact of information-structural features on agreement. So far, the syntactic contribution of this type of feature has mostly been reduced to movement of topics or foci clause-initial position. Here, the author looks at a different phenomenon, syntactic agreement, and how this process can be dependent on information-structural properties. Based partly on original fieldwork from a typologically diverse set of languages, including Tagalog, Swahili, and Lavukaleve, it is argued that for most areas for which information-structural features have been discussed, it is possible to find cases where these features influence phi-feature agreement. The analysis is then extended to cases of Association with Focus, which does not involve phi-features but can still be accounted for with agreement of information-structural features. The book achieves two main goals: first it provides a uniform analysis for different constructions in unrelated languages. Second, it also gives a new argument that information-structural features should be treated as genuine syntactic features.
Authors: Johannes Mursell
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Subjects: Grammar, Comparative and general--Syntax, Grammar, Comparative and general--Agreement, Discourse markers, Grammar, Comparative and general--Particles, Focus (Linguistics)
Categories: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax
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