Archi - Complexities of Agreement in Cross-Theoretical Perspective (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Oxford Studies of Endangered Languages, 4
Release date:	August 2016
Editors:	Oliver Bond (Lecturer in Linguistics) • Greville G. Corbett (Distinguished Professor of Linguistics) • Marina Chumakina (Research Fellow in the Surrey Morphology Group) • Dunstan Brown (Professor of Linguistics)
Dimensions:	233 x 163 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	304
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-874729-1
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > General Promotions
LSN:	0-19-874729-2
Barcode:	9780198747291

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