Agreement in Natural Language

by Charles A. Ferguson

Although grammatical agreement or concord is widespread in human languages, linguistic theorists have generally treated agreement phenomena as secondary or even marginal. All the papers in this volume, however, take agreement phenomena seriously, as presenting either a general issue in theory construction or a descriptive problem in particular types of languages. The theoretical perspectives range from purportedly theory-neutral typological frameworks...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0937073024
• ISBN13: 9780937073025
• Release Date: March 1988
• Publisher: Center for the Study of Language and Informat
• Length: 355 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.