The Design of Agreement: Evidence from Chamorro

by Sandra Chung

Overview

Sandra Chung proposes that linguistic theory must recognize not one but two agreement relations—a featural relation that lies behind agreement's impact on the form of words and a configurational relation that lies behind agreement's impact on syntactic structure. She identifies the two relations and argues that neither can be reduced to the other. Chung offers the most comprehensive analysis of the syntax of Chamorro that has appeared to date and relates her proposals to what is known about analogous constructions in English, Italian, Irish, Japanese, Maori, and other languages.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780226106076
Publisher:	University of Chicago Press
Publication date:	11/01/1998
Series:	Folktales of the World Ser.
Edition description:	1
Pages:	431
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.20(d)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
1: Introduction
2: The Surface Design of Chamorro
3: Configurationality
4: On Deriving VSO
5: A Syntactic Agreement Relation
6: The Morphology of Extraction
7: Topic and Focus
8: Syntactic Agreement and Locality
9: Adjunct Extraction
10: On the Design of Agreement
App. A: Orthography
App. B: Morpheme-by-Morpheme Glosses
App. C. Sources
Notes
References
Index

What People are Saying About This

Kenneth Hale

A very learned piece of work that could serve many purposes, including that of a sourcebook on Chamorro grammar, a textbook foundation for a course on the grammar of agreement, and in general, as a model of detailed and careful linguistic scholarship.
— (Kenneth Hale, MIT)

Editorial Reviews

Proposes that linguistic theory must recognize not one but two agreement relations--a featural relation that lies behind agreement's impact on the form of words, and a configurational relation that lies behind agreement's impact on syntactic structure. This view is supported with evidence from Chamorro, an Austronesian language spoken on Guam, and related to analogous constructions in English, Italian, Irish, Japanese, Maori, and other languages. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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