Clausal and Nominal Agreement in Russian : An Unified Approach

ISBN-13: 9783639075465 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 172 str.

Christopher Becker

Opis

This book unifies the analysis of morphosyntactic§agreement patterns of the clause and the noun phrase,§focusing empirically on the syntax of Russian. Here, §the author develops a Minimalist analysis modifying §the Agree and Probe-Goal approach and shows that many§long-standing issues regarding agreement of formal§features and Case can be accounted for without resort§to certain stipulations. In particular, this book §proposes that clausal agreement reflects the §features of the constituents of a subject noun §phrase and proposes locality constraints on this §agreement operation. Such a unified account of §clausal and nominal feature agreement has been §lacking in many proposals that consider the data in §only one, or the other, domain. This book §contributes to the theoretical understanding of §agreement phenomena in both morphologically rich §agreement languages such as Russian and less §inflected languages such as English.

O autorze

Christopher Becker received his Ph.D. in Linguistics and Slavic
Languages from the University of Michigan in 2008. His primary
research interests include syntactic agreement, case licensing,
and the structure of the nominal domain.