The Role of Agreement in Non-Finite Predication
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This comparative syntactic study claims that agreement is the most central functional category responsible for licensing predication in finite, non-finite and small clauses alike. Intriguing syntactic phenomena like Icelandic infinitival predicates taking non-nominative (quirky) subjects; psych-impersonal and modal predicates in Italian, Hungarian and Russian; meteorological predicates, existential clauses, post-verbal and null subjects in the so-called null-subject VSO languages can all be better analyzed through a concept of predication that is closely related to AGRP, manifesting subject-verb agreement. The overt agreement marking in Hungarian and Portuguese infinitival clauses further strengthens this view. Obviation and control subjunctive clauses in the Balkan languages, Welsh finite and non-finite infinitival clauses as well as case-marked secondary predicates in Icelandic, Slovak, Hungarian, Russian and Finnish also lend support to an analysis where the [+pred] feature is checked in AGRP.
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 90] 2005. xvi, 222 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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List of abbreviations | pp. vii–ix
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List of cases in Hungarian | p. x
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Acknowledgements | p. xi
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Foreword | pp. xii–xv
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1. Finiteness and minimalist theory | pp. 1–28
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2. Two theories of predicstion without AGRP | pp. 29–41
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3. AGR-based theories of grammar | pp. 43–69
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4. AGRP in infinitival clauses: Icelandic and Hungarian | pp. 71–143
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5. AGRP in other forms of non-finite predication | pp. 145–198
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6. Conclusion | pp. 199–201
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Index | pp. 220–221
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