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Date: 26-Oct-2005
From: Paul Peranteau < paul at benjamins.com >
Subject: The Rise of Agreement: Fuß 

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Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2005 13:30:47
From: Paul Peranteau < paul at benjamins.com >
Subject: The Rise of Agreement: Fuß 

Title: The Rise of Agreement 
Subtitle: A formal approach to the syntax and grammaticalization of verbal inflection

Series Title: Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 81  

Publication Year: 2005 
Publisher: John Benjamins
	   http://www.benjamins.com/

Book URL: http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=LA%2081 

Author: Eric Fuß, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University

Hardback: ISBN: 9027228051 Pages: xii, 336 Price: U.S. $ 174.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9027228051 Pages: xii, 336 Price: Europe EURO 145.00

Abstract:

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 principles impose only a set of necessary conditions on the
reanalysis in question, while its ultimate trigger is morphological in
nature. More specifically, it is argued that the acquisition of
inflectional morphology is governed by blocking effects which operate
during language acquisition and promote the grammaticalization of new
markers if this change serves to replace 'worn-out', underspecified forms
with new, more specified candidates. 

Table of contents

Acknowledgements  ix-x  
Notes for the reader and list of abbreviations  xi  
Introduction  1-21  
Theoretical preliminaries  23-53  
The structural design of agreement  55-128  
The transition from pronoun to inflectional marker  129-155  
The reanalysis of C-oriented clitics  157-228  
Morphological blocking and the rise of agreement  229-297  
Concluding summary  299-304  
References  305-324  
Index  325-335  

"This is the first empirically detailed, theoretically informed study of
the historical development of agreement marking in the context of a
generative approach to syntactic change. As such it represents a major
contribution to the field, and deserves a very wide readership." 
Ian Roberts, University of Cambridge 

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Linguistic Theories
                     Morphology
                     Syntax

Written In: English  (eng)

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