A Theory of Agreement and Its Applicaton to Serbo-Croatian  

Oleh:

Wechsler, Stephen ; Zlatic, Larisa

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language (ada di JSTOR) vol. 76 no. 4 (1999), page 799-832.
Fulltext: Vol. 76, No. 4, pp. 799-832.pdf (784.88KB)

Isi artikel

Four lexical features of a noun are relevant to agreement: (i) semantic conditions on reference, (ii) person, number, and gender features of the referential index, (iii) concord features, and (iv) declension class. These four features are correlated by a chain of binary constraints. When individ- ual constraints are violated, the chain is broken, resulting in intricate patterns of mixed agreement. Three main types of mixed agreement are predicted, all of them attested in Serbo-Croatian. This theory helps explain Corbett's (1983) crosslinguistic AGREEMENT HIERARCHY.*

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