The Syntax of Agreement and Concord
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Develops a theory of the agreement processes found in language.
Acknowledgments xiList of abbreviations and conventions xivIntroduction: category distinctions as a window on the theory of agreement 1A generalization to be explained 1The incompleteness of previous discussions 3What a better theory could look like 6What is in this book 6What is not in this book 7Basic agreement and category distinctions 12The generality of the categorical asymmetries in agreement 13The category-theoretic infrastructure 27The agreement-theoretic contribution 40Explaining the basic categorical asymmetries in agreement 48Issues arising 56Conclusion 64The unity of verbal and adjectival agreement 65Downward agreement on adjectives 67Upward agreement on verbs 74Verbs that cannot agree in person, like adjectives 85Conclusion 107Explaining the restriction on person agreement 111Person agreement and other categories 112Operator-variable agreement and Agree 121A locality condition on first and second person variables 124On the strictness of locality conditions involving heads 138Deriving the SCOPA 142Conclusion 148Parameters of agreement 153Introduction: parameters and other kinds of variation 153Agreement on tense 157Agreement on F[subscript A] and the formulation of the parameters 171Agreement on complementizers 178Agreement on determiners 184Agreement on adpositions 191Agreement on v 196Agreement on the linker head 206Agreement in auxiliary constructions 207A third value for the Direction of Agreement Parameter 214Many little parameters or two big parameters? 219General conclusion 244Table of languages and their agreement properties 246References 254Index 264
