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Design of Agreement Evidence from Chamorro
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The Design of Agreement Evidence from Chamorro

Chung, Sandra
ISBN-10: 0226106071
ISBN-13: 9780226106076

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Sandra Chung is professor of linguistics at the University of California, Santa Cruz."In this new study of agreement, 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. She then investigates the effects of the configurational relation, called the Associate relation, exposing its contribution to the rules and principles that organize syntactic constructions in a range of languages." "Chung supports her view of agreement with extensive evidence from Chamorro, an Austronesian language spoken on Guam and Saipan. In so doing, she offers the most comprehensive analysis of the syntax of Chamorro that has appeared to date."--BOOK JACKET. Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights ReservedSandra 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. BR
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Acknowledgments
Introduction
Setting the Stage
The Focus of This Book
The Chamorro Language
The Principles and Parameters Framework
The Surface Design of Chamorro
Clauses Whose Predicates Are [+V]
Word Order
Inflection
Agreement and Pronouns
Subject-Verb Agreement
Overt Pronouns
Null Pronouns
Ungrammatical Combinations of Subject and Object
Voice
Passive and Antipassive
A Western Austronesian Voice System?
Noun Phrases and Prepositional Phrases
The Word Order of Noun Phrases
Determiners
Possessor-Noun Agreement
Morphological Case
Prepositional Phrases
Clauses Whose Predicates Are [-V]
A Survey of Agreement Phenomena
Configurationality
Two Approaches to Nonconfigurational Languages
Chamorro as a Configurational Language
Subjects Are Distinguished from Nonsubjects
Grammatical Relations Are Differentiated Hierarchically
Principle C
Discourse Anaphora and Bound Variable Anaphora
The Predicate XP Forms a Constituent
Full Noun Phrases Are Syntactic Arguments
Some Approaches to the Position of the Subject
Chamorro Subjects at D-Structure
Chamorro Subjects at S-Structure
Logical Form and Ergativity
What Explains the EXAR?
On Deriving VSO
Two Approaches to VSO Order
Verb Raising
Subject Lowering
Chamorro as a Subject Lowering Language
Adverbs
Coordinate VP's
Word Order Flexibility in Clauses with Coordinate VP's
Lowering in Overt Syntax
Lowering from the Specifier of I[superscript 0]
Subject Lowering and Binding Theory
Reconstruction
A Leftness Effect
Binding Theory and Direct Objects
Binding Theory and Other Complements
The Typology of VSO Languages
A Syntactic Agreement Relation
Some Background
Defining the Associate Relation
The Shape of Clauses and Other Constituents in Chamorro
Clauses
Noun Phrases
Constituent Questions
Summary
Agreement as Relation or Category?
Agr[superscript 0] and Its Function
Evidence against Agr[superscript 0]
The Morphology of Agreement
Feature Compatibility and Its Consequences
Inflectional Word Formation Rules
Conclusion
The Morphology of Extraction
Two Wh-Constructions in Chamorro
Constituent Questions
Relative Clauses
Operator-C Agreement
The Complementizer System
Complementizer Effects in Wh-Constructions
Operator-C Agreement in Relative Clauses
Summary
Wh-Agreement
Verbal Inflection in Wh-Constructions
The Syntactic Insignificance of the Inflection
The Wh-Category
The Other Category
Summary
Conclusion
Topic and Focus
Topic
Focus
Summary
Syntactic Agreement and Locality
The Head Government Requirement
Licensing by Lexical Heads
Intervening Heads
Licensing by Functional Heads
Wh-Movement of Subject and Predicate
What Head Licenses the Trace of the Subject?
V[superscript 0] and A[superscript 0]
C[superscript 0]
Finite I[superscript 0] as Licensing Head
C[superscript 0] as Licensing Head
Summary
Traces Created by A-Movement
Passives and Unaccusatives
The Internal Subject Hypothesis
Raising
Conclusion
Adjunct Extraction
Prologue: Adjoined Categories and M-Command
Evidence from the Head Government Requirement
Evidence from Anaphora and Wh-Agreement
More Evidence from the Head Government Requirement
Summary
Two Types of Adverbials
Phrase Structure
Wh-Movement
The Head Government Requirement
The Shortest Move Requirement
Some Background
Evidence from Islands
Evidence from Wh-Agreement
Paradox Resolved
Conclusion
On the Design of Agreement
Orthography
Morpheme-by-Morpheme Glosses
Sources
Notes
References
Index

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Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Binding: Trade Cloth
Pages: 424
Size: 6.30" wide x 9.25" long x 1.18" tall
Weight: 1.61 lbs.
Language: English

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