The many facets of agreement

Muenchen : Lincom Europa, 2023.

Caha P., Kasenov D., Starke M., Cortiula M., Taraldsen Medová L., Taraldsen T., Letuchiy A., Rudnev P., Slioussar N.

Under the general editorship: P. Caha, Rudnev P., Toldova S.

Agreement is a phenomenon that spans multiple areas of linguistic theorizing. On the one hand, agreement has been regarded as purely syntactic/morphological phenomenon because it has no clear contribution to meaning. However, this clashes with the observation that agreement may also influence interpretation in subtle ways, allowing languages to express nuances in meaning that would otherwise get lost. The book addresses the phenomenon of agreement and its place in the grammar from multiple linguistic perspectives. The individual chapters in this book investigate the question what we can learn about the general process of agreement based on the detailed study of its syntax, semantics and morphology, including its production/processing by the human brain.

Chapters

The Anaphor Agreement Effect as epiphenomenon

Rudnev P., , in: The many facets of agreement.: Muenchen: Lincom Europa, 2023. Ch. 6 P. 111–144.

Added: January 12, 2023

The role of case syncretism in sentence processing

Slioussar N., , in: The many facets of agreement.: Muenchen: Lincom Europa, 2023. P. 145–163.

In many languages that have morphological case, syncretism is found: some affixes are used for different cases inside one paradigm (intra-paradigmatic syncretism) or across paradigms (trans-paradigmatic syncretism). Intra-paradigmatic syncretism results in morphologically ambiguous, or syncretic, forms: e.g. the form stoly from the noun stol ‘table’ is used both in nominative and in accusative plural. The ...

Added: October 21, 2023

Third person sensitive accusative case allomorphy in Balkar and Kumyk

Kasenov D., , in: The many facets of agreement.: Muenchen: Lincom Europa, 2023. P. 37–52.

Added: October 23, 2023

Keywords: morphology, syntax, agreement, anaphora and binding