The Design of Agreement: Evidence from Chamorro

by Sandra Chung

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. Chung offers the most comprehensive analysis of the syntax of Chamorro that has appeared to date and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226106071
• ISBN13: 9780226106076
• Release Date: November 1998
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 431 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.4"