This book presents a controlled evaluation of three widely
practised syntactic theories on the basis of the extremely complex
agreement system of Archi, an endangered Nakh-Daghestanian
language. Even straightforward agreement examples are puzzling for
syntacticians because agreement involves both redundancy and
arbitrariness. Agreement is a significant source of syntactic
complexity, exacerbated by the great diversity of its morphological
expression. Imagine how the discipline of linguistics would be if
expert practitioners of different theories met in a collaborative
setting to tackle such challenging agreement data - to test the
limits of their models and examine how the predictions of their
theories differ given the same linguistic facts. Following an
overview of the essentials of Archi grammar and an introduction to
the remarkable agreement phenomena found in this language, three
distinct accounts of the Archi data examine the tractability and
predictive power of major syntactic theories: Head-driven Phrase
Structure Grammar, Lexical Functional Grammar, and Minimalism. The
final chapter compares the problems encountered and the solutions
proposed in the different syntactic analyses and outlines the
implications of the challenges that the Archi agreement system
poses for linguistic theory.
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