The Syntax of Information-Structural Agreement (2021)

The Syntax of Information-Structural Agreement 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. Autor: Johannes (Goethe University Frankfurt) Mursell Wydawnictwo: John Benjamins Publishing Co Rok wydania: 2021 Okładka: twarda Liczba stron: 280 Wymiary: 16.7 x 24.9 x 1.9 cm Język: angielski ISBN: 9789027209139