Rev. version of the author's doctoral dissertation (Frankfort), 2004.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The Rise of Agreement -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- Notes for the reader and list of abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1.1. The grammaticalization of verbal agreement markers -- 1.2. Previous accounts -- 1.2.1. NP-detachment (Givón 1976) -- 1.2.2. Accessibility theory (Ariel 2000) -- 1.2.3. Reanalysis of focus shells (Simpson & Wu 2002) -- 1.2.4. Section summary -- 1.3. Outline of the Book -- Notes -- Theoretical preliminaries -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. Minimalist syntax -- 2.3. Distributed Morphology.
2.4. Language change: A generative perspective -- 2.5. Grammaticalization -- 2.6. Summary -- Notes -- The structural design of agreement -- 3.1. Introduction -- 3.2. The phrase-structural representation of agreement -- 3.2.1. Conceptual arguments -- 3.2.2. Evidence from word order facts -- 3.2.3. The morphological realization of agreement -- 3.3. The structural relation involved in feature matching -- 3.4. Syntactic approaches to word formation -- 3.5. Interim summary: The design of agreement -- 3.6. Toward a realizational theory of agreement.
3.6.1. The structural representation of agreement morphemes -- 3.6.2. Feature matching under closest c-command -- 3.6.3. Agreement and word formation -- 3.6.4. Section summary -- 3.7. Multiple agreement: Inflected complementizers in Germanic -- 3.7.1. Previous accounts of complementizer agreement -- 3.7.2. A Late Insertion account of complementizer agreement -- 3.8. Conclusion -- Notes -- The transition from pronoun to inflectional marker -- 4.1. Introduction -- 4.2. Telling apart clitics and agreement markers -- 4.2.1. Syntactic criteria -- 4.2.2. Morphological criteria.
4.3. Syntactic preconditions for the rise of agreement -- 4.4. Paths toward agreement I: Infl-oriented clitics -- 4.5. Paths toward agreement II: C-oriented clitics -- 4.6. Summary -- Notes -- The reanalysis of C-oriented clitics -- 5.1. Introduction -- 5.2. Bavarian -- 5.2.1. The diachronic development of Agr-on-C in Bavarian -- 5.2.2. Clitics, V2, and the rise of agreement -- 5.2.3. Developments in other German varieties -- 5.2.4. Section summary -- 5.3. Rhaeto-Romance -- 5.3.1. A grammatical sketch of the Swiss Rhaeto-Romance dialects.
5.3.2. Earlier grammaticalization processes affecting enclitic pronouns -- 5.3.3. Clitic doubling and the rise of agreement -- 5.3.4. The reanalysis of emphatic doubling structures -- 5.3.5. Section summary -- 5.4. Reanalysis of C-oriented clitics in non-V2 languages -- 5.4.1. Uto-Aztecan -- 5.4.2. Mongolian -- 5.5. Conclusion -- Notes -- Morphological blocking and the rise of agreement -- 6.1. Introduction -- 6.2. The Blocking Principle -- 6.2.1. The rise of new verbal agreement endings in Bavarian -- 6.2.2. Morphological blocking versus analogical leveling.
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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 p.
Rise of agreement.
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Grammar, Comparative and general-- Agreement.
Grammar, Comparative and general-- Grammaticalization.
Grammar, Comparative and general-- Inflection.
Grammar, Comparative and general-- Verb.
Historical linguistics.
Accord (Linguistique)
Flexion (Linguistique)
Grammaticalisation.
Linguistique historique.
Verbe (Linguistique)
Congruentie (taalkunde)
Grammar, Comparative and general-- Agreement.
Grammar, Comparative and general-- Grammaticalization.
Grammar, Comparative and general-- Inflection.
Grammar, Comparative and general-- Verb.
Grammaticalisering.
Historical linguistics.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES-- Grammar & Punctuation.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES-- Linguistics-- Syntax.