32.3367, Books: The Syntax of Information-Structural Agreement: Mursell

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Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2021 23:02:23
From: Karin Plijnaar [karin.plijnaar at benjamins.nl]
Subject: The Syntax of Information-Structural Agreement: Mursell

 


Title: The Syntax of Information-Structural Agreement 
Series Title: Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 268  

Publication Year: 2021 
Publisher: John Benjamins
	   http://www.benjamins.com/
	

Book URL: https://benjamins.com/catalog/la.268 


Author: Johannes Mursell

Electronic: ISBN:  9789027259738 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 149.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027259738 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 83.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027259738 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 99.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027209139 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 149.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027209139 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 83.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027209139 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 104.94


Abstract:

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.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Syntax


Written In: English  (eng)

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