Phi-features and the Modular Architecture of Language (Hardcover, 2011 ed.)

This monograph investigates the modular architecture of language through the nature of "uninterpretable" phi-features: person, number, gender, and Case. It provides new tools and evidence for the modular architecture of the human language faculty, a foundational topic of linguistic research. At the same time it develops a new theory for one of the core issues posed by the Minimalist Program: the relationship of syntax to its interfaces and the nature of uninterpretable features. The work sets out to establish a new cross-linguistic phenomenon to study the foregoing, person-governed last-resort repairs, which provides new insights into the nature of ergative/accusative Case and of Case licensing itself. This is the first monograph that explicitly addresses the syntactic vs. morphological status of uninterpretable phi-features and their relationship to interface systems in a similar way, drawing on person-based interactions among arguments as key data-base.

General

Imprint:	Springer
Country of origin:	Netherlands
Series:	Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 81
Release date:	November 2010
First published:	2011
Authors:	Milan Rezac
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	326
Edition:	2011 ed.
ISBN-13:	978-90-481-9697-5
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Grammar, syntax, linguistic structure > General Promotions
LSN:	90-481-9697-3
Barcode:	9789048196975

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