34.617, Books: Life of Phi: van Alem

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Subject: 34.617, Books: Life of Phi: van Alem

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Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2023 16:17:23
From: Tessa Armero [lotdissertations-fgw at uva.nl]
Subject: Life of Phi: van Alem

 


Title: Life of Phi 
Subtitle: Phi-features in West Germanic and the syntax-morphology interface 
Series Title: LOT Dissertation Series  

Publication Year: 2023 
Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke (LOT)
	   http://www.lotpublications.nl/
	

Book URL: https://www.lotpublications.nl/life-of-phi 


Author: Astrid van Alem

Paperback: ISBN:  9789460934186 Pages: 197 Price: Europe EURO 33


Abstract:

This thesis investigates aspects of phi-features in non-standard and minority
West Germanic languages. Phi-features play a role in several parts of the
grammar, and the West Germanic languages display a wealth of variation related
to phi-features. Investigating phi-features in West Germanic therefore gives
us a unique view on the relationship between the different components of the
grammar, in particular syntax and morphology.

Based on new empirical data and generalisations, this thesis presents a novel
analysis of three empirical phenomena. First, it analyses position dependent
agreement in Dutch dialects as the result of a phi-defective agreement head.
Second, it argues that complementiser agreement in Frisian and Limburgian is
clitic doubling. Finally, it shows that word order variation in Dutch and
German imperatives is the result of morphological variation of verb stems. The
analyses provide insight into the representation of phi-features in syntax and
morphology, the syntactic and morphological requirements on clitic doubling,
and the syntactic consequences of the distribution of phi-features on lexical
items.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Morphology
                     Syntax


Written In: English  (eng)

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