31.3044, Books: An Areal Typology of Agreement Systems: Matasović

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Date: Wed, 07 Oct 2020 21:39:35
From: Rachel Tonkin [rtonkin at cambridge.org]
Subject: An Areal Typology of Agreement Systems: Matasović

 


Title: An Areal Typology of Agreement Systems 
Publication Year: 2020 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://cambridge.org
	

Book URL: https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/grammar-and-syntax/areal-typology-agreement-systems?format=PB 


Author: Ranko Matasović

Paperback: ISBN:  9781108413084 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 31.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9781108413084 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 23.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9781108413084 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 28.00


Abstract:

Surveying over 300 languages, this typological study presents new theoretical
insights into the nature of agreement, as well as empirical findings about the
distribution of agreement patterns in the world's languages. Focussing
primarily on agreement in gender, number and person, but with reference to
agreement in other smaller categories, Ranko Matasović aims to discover which
patterns of agreement are widespread and common in languages, and which are
rather limited in their distribution. He sheds new light on a range of
important theoretical questions such as what agreement actually is, what
areal, typological and genetic patterns exist across agreement systems, and
what problems in the analysis of agreement remain unresolved.

1. Introduction; 2. What is agreement?; 3. Domains of agreement and categories
involved; 4. Problems with agreement; 5. Grammatical, ambiguous and anaphoric
agreement; 6. Marginal agreement; 7. The sample of languages; 8. Areal and
genetic patterns in agreement systems; 9. Typological correlations in
agreement systems; 10. Diachronic patterns in the development of agreement;
11. Conclusions.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Syntax
                     Typology


Written In: English  (eng)

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