from the inventory of persons to their morphological realization /
First Statement of Responsibility
Peter Ackema and Ad Neeleman.
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Cambridge, MA :
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The MIT Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
[2018]
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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1 online resource
SERIES
Series Title
Linguistic inquiry monographs ;
Volume Designation
78
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Intro; Contents; Series Foreword; Preface; Abbreviations; 1 Person: A To-Do List; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 The Inventory of Persons and Their Interpretation; 1.3 Agreement for Person; 1.4 Syntactic Restrictions on Agreement; 1.5 The Realization of Person Features; 1.6 Maximal Encoding; 1.7 Summary; 2 Person Features: Deriving the Inventory of Persons; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 The Basic Proposal; 2.3 The Interpretation of Person in Discourse; 2.4 The Third Person as Default; 2.5 Effects of Maximal Encoding; 2.6 Honorifics; 2.7 Consequences for the Morphosyntax of prs; 2.8 Bound Pronouns
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2.9 Conclusion3 Interactions between Person and Number; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Two Types of Number System; 3.3 Number in Pronouns and Associative Plurals; 3.4 Conclusion; 4 Impersonal Pronouns; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Overview; 4.3 Generic and Arbitrary Readings of Plural Pronouns; 4.4 Dedicated Impersonal Pronouns: imp-2; 4.5 Generic Second Person Singular Pronouns; 4.6 Dedicated Impersonal Pronouns: imp-1; 4.7 Why Inclusive Impersonal Pronouns Are human; 4.8 Conclusion; 5 The Symmetric Nature of Agreement; 5.1 Agreement: Symmetric or Asymmetric?; 5.2 Feature Spreading
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5.3 Referential Unagreement5.4 Quantificational Unagreement; 5.5 The Link between Unagreement and Pro Drop; 5.6 Conclusion; 6 Syntactic Restrictions on Agreement; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Agreement and the Theory of Syntactic Dependencies; 6.3 Syntactic Agreement versus Restrictor Agreement; 6.4 Agreement: Upward and Downward; 6.5 The Domain of Feature Spreading; 6.6 Intervention Effects; 6.7 Conclusion; 7 The Morphological Realization of Person; 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 Patterns of Syncretism; 7.3 Accounting for Person Syncretisms; 7.4 Shifts in Person Syncretism in Dutch; 7.5 Conclusion
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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This book offers a significant reconceptualization of the person system in natural language. The authors, leading scholars in syntax and its interfaces, propose that person features do not have inherent content but are used to navigate a "person space" at the heart of every pronominal expression. They map the journey of person features in grammar, from semantics through syntax to the system of morphological realization. Such an in-depth cross-modular study allows the development of a theory in which assumptions made about the behavior of a given feature in one module bear on possible assumptions about its behavior in other modules.
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MIT Press
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MIT Press
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11145
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9780262347365
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Title
Features of person.
International Standard Book Number
9780262038195
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Generative grammar.
Grammar, Comparative and general-- Morphosyntax.
Grammar, Comparative and general-- Person.
Grammar, Comparative and general-- Pronomials.
Grammar, Comparative and general-- Pronoun.
Generative grammar.
Grammar, Comparative and general-- Morphosyntax.
Grammar, Comparative and general-- Person.
Grammar, Comparative and general-- Pronoun.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES-- Grammar & Punctuation.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES-- Linguistics-- Syntax.