The Many Faces of Agreement: Morphology, Syntax, Semantics, and Discourse Factors in Serbo-Croatian Agreement

By Stephen Wechsler and Larisa Zlatic

Book Overview

Agreement features correlate closely with semantics as well as with noun morphology. This book presents a precise formal theory of those correlations, illustrated with Serbo-Croatian and other languages. In explaining regular agreement as a network of constraints, the theory also predicts a restricted set of exceptional situations where normal agreement can give way to agreement mismatches.

With this framework in place, the authors explore a number of factors that affect agreement processes. The theory even explains the striking cross-linguistic generalizations expressed in Corbett's Agreement Hierarchy. Agreement is shown to be a distributed phenomenon, manifesting its many faces among the various components of grammar.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1575864185
• ISBN13: 9781575864181
• Release Date: May 2003
• Publisher: Center for the Study of Language and Informat
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 9.2"