
Rise of Agreement : A formal approach to the syntax and grammaticalization of verbal inflection.
Title:
Rise of Agreement : A formal approach to the syntax and grammaticalization of verbal inflection.
Author:
Fuß, Eric.
ISBN:
9789027294142
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1 online resource (350 pages)
Contents:
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 -- 6.2.3. On the status of morphological doublets -- 6.2.4. Section summary -- 6.3. The pioneering role of 1st and 2nd person -- 6.4. French -- 6.5. Northern Italian dialects -- 6.5.1. Piattino -- 6.5.2. Vicentino -- 6.5.3. Section summary -- 6.6. Rhaeto-Romance -- 6.7. Language loss and the grammaticalization of agreement markers -- 6.8. Grammaticalization and multiple agreement in Skou -- 6.8.1. Strategies of agreement marking in present-day Skou -- 6.8.2. The historical origin of multiple agreement marking in Skou -- 6.9. Conclusion -- Notes -- Concluding summary -- Note -- References -- Index -- The series Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today.
Abstract:
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 principles impose only a set of necessary conditions on the reanalysis in question, while its ultimate trigger is morphological in nature. More specifically, it is argued that the acquisition of inflectional morphology is governed by blocking effects which operate during language acquisition and promote the grammaticalization of new markers if this change serves to replace 'worn-out', underspecified forms with new, more specified candidates.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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