Wechsler & Zlatic book

[Ivan A. Sag]

CSLI Publications is pleased to announce the publication of
THE MANY FACES OF AGREEMENT
Stephen Wechsler and Laris Zlatic
paper ISBN: 1575864185, $22.00, cloth ISBN: 1575864177, $65.00,
253 pages.  Stanford Monographs in Linguistics.
Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications 2003.
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Book description:

Agreement features correlate closely with semantics as well as 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.
Stephen Wechsler is an associate professor of linguistics at the
University of Texas at Austin.  Larisa Zlatic is the Director of Zlatic
Language Services in Austin, Texas.