Agreement and its failures /
This monograph shows that the typically obligatory nature of predicate-argument agreement in phi-features (phi-agreement) cannot be captured through 'derivational time-bombs' - elements of the initial representation that cannot be part of a well-formed, end-of-the-derivation structure, and...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, MA :
The MIT Press,
[2014]
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| Series: | Linguistic inquiry monographs ;
68 |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | This monograph shows that the typically obligatory nature of predicate-argument agreement in phi-features (phi-agreement) cannot be captured through 'derivational time-bombs' - elements of the initial representation that cannot be part of a well-formed, end-of-the-derivation structure, and which are eliminated by the application of phi-agreement itself. This includes, but is not limited to, the 'uninterpretable features' of Chomsky 2000, 2001. Instead, it requires recourse to an operation - one whose invocation is obligatory, but whose successful culmination is not enforced by the grammar. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xvi, 291 pages) : illustrations. |
| ISBN: | 9780262323192 0262323192 |
| DOI: | 10.7551/mitpress/9780262027403.001.0001 |