Agreement in language relates to the correspondence between words in a sentence, in terms of gender, case, person, or number. For example, in the sentence 'he runs', the suffix -s 'agrees' with the singular 'he'. Patterns of agreement vary dramatically cross-linguistically, with great diversity in the way it is expressed, and the types of variation permitted. This textbook offers an insight into how agreement works, and how linguists have tried to account for it. It will be essential reading for all those studying the structure and mechanisms of natural languages.
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Agreement in language relates to the correspondence between words in a sentence, in terms of gender, case, person, or number. This textbook offers an insight into how agreement works, and how it varies cross-linguistically. It will be essential reading for all those studying the structure and mechanisms of natural languages.
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Greville G. Corbett is Distinguished Professor of Linguistics at the University of Surrey.
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Agreement is a widespread and varied phenomenon. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Agreement Hierarchy, Predicate Hierarchy, Bininj Gun-Wok, British English, Inari Sami, Upper Sorbian, Aleksandr Kibrik, Animacy Hierarchy, Tundra Nenets, American English, Network Morphology, Marina Chumakina, Mark Donohue, South Slavonic, Tuscan Italian, Leipzig Glossing Rules, New Guinea, Relational Grammar, West Slavonic, Edith Moravcsik, Modern Standard Arabic New!
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Agreement is a widespread and varied phenomenon. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Agreement Hierarchy, Predicate Hierarchy, Bininj Gun-Wok, British English, Inari Sami, Upper Sorbian, Aleksandr Kibrik, Animacy Hierarchy, Tundra Nenets, American English, Network Morphology, Marina Chumakina, Mark Donohue, South Slavonic, Tuscan Italian, Leipzig Glossing Rules, New Guinea, Relational Grammar, West Slavonic, Edith Moravcsik, Modern Standard Arabic New!
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- The Slavonic Languages (Routledge Language Family Series) by Bernard Comrie on 6 pages
- Agreement in Natural Language: Approaches, Theories, Descriptions (Center for the Study of Language and Information - Lecture Notes) by Michael Barlow on 5 pages
- Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (Studies in Contemporary Linguistics) by Carl Pollard on page 22, page 116, and Back Matter
- Year Book of Morphology 1988 by G. Booij in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Noun Phrase Structure in the Languages of Europe (Empirical Approaches to Language Typology, 20-7) by Frans Plank in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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