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Cross-Linguistic Studies of Imposters and Pronominal Agreement (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780199336869)
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xImposters are third person DPs that are used to refer to the speaker/writer or addressee, such as: (i) Your humble servant finds the time before our next encounter very long.
(ii) This reporter thinks that the current developments are extraordinary.
(iii) Daddy will be back before too long.
(iv) The present author finds the logic of the reply faulty. This volume explores verbal and pronominal agreement with imposters from a cross-linguistic perspective. The central questions for any given language are: (a) How do singular and plural imposters agree with the verb? (b) When a pronoun has an imposter antecedent, what are the phi-features of the pronoun? The volume reveals a remarkable degree of variation in the answers to these questions, but also reveals some underlying generalizations. The contributions describe imposters in Bangla, Spanish, Albanian, Indonesian, Italian, French, Romanian, Mandarin and Icelandic.
Author: Chris Collins
ISBN-10: 0199336865
ISBN-13: 9780199336869
Publisher: OUP Us
Language: English
Published: 04/02/2014
Pages: 282
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.90d
(ii) This reporter thinks that the current developments are extraordinary.
(iii) Daddy will be back before too long.
(iv) The present author finds the logic of the reply faulty. This volume explores verbal and pronominal agreement with imposters from a cross-linguistic perspective. The central questions for any given language are: (a) How do singular and plural imposters agree with the verb? (b) When a pronoun has an imposter antecedent, what are the phi-features of the pronoun? The volume reveals a remarkable degree of variation in the answers to these questions, but also reveals some underlying generalizations. The contributions describe imposters in Bangla, Spanish, Albanian, Indonesian, Italian, French, Romanian, Mandarin and Icelandic.
Author: Chris Collins
ISBN-10: 0199336865
ISBN-13: 9780199336869
Publisher: OUP Us
Language: English
Published: 04/02/2014
Pages: 282
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.90d
By Chris Collins
xChris Collins is a professor in the Department of Linguistics at New York University. He received his Ph.D. in linguistics from MIT in 1993. He specializes syntactic theory, including the syntax of English and the syntax of African languages.
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