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Surveying over 300 languages, this typological study presents new theoretical insights into the nature of agreement, as well as empirical findings about the distribution of agreement patterns in the world's languages. Focussing primarily on agreement in gender, number and person, but with reference to agreement in other smaller categories, Ranko Matasović aims to discover which patterns of agreement are widespread and common in languages, and which are rather limited in their distribution. He sheds new light on a range of important theoretical questions such as what agreement actually is, what areal, typological and genetic patterns exist across agreement systems, and what problems in the analysis of agreement remain unresolved.

Grammar, Comparative and general --- Agreement (Grammar) --- Concord (Grammar) --- Agreement. --- Concord --- Case --- Gender --- Number --- Person --- Syntax --- Linguistics --- Philology

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This text explores the role of agreement morphology in the morphosyntactic realization of a verb's arguments. It compares configurational and nonconfigurational languages and should be useful to linguists concerned with morphosyntactic theory, typology, and the interactions of syntax.

Grammar --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Language and languages --- Syntax --- Agreement (Grammar) --- Concord (Grammar) --- Agreement --- Concord --- Case --- Gender --- Number --- Person --- Agreement. --- Syntax. --- Linguistics --- Philology --- Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax

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Here, Ian Roberts explores the consequences of Chomsky's conjecture that head-movement is not part of the narrow syntax the computational system that relates the lexicon to the interfaces.

Head-driven phrase structure grammar. --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Agreement. --- Agreement (Grammar) --- Concord (Grammar) --- HPSG (Linguistics) --- Phrase structure grammar --- Concord --- Case --- Gender --- Number --- Person --- Syntax --- Head-driven phrase structure grammar --- Agreement --- LINGUISTICS & LANGUAGE/General --- Linguistics --- Philology

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The status of agreement is a core issue in current morphological and syntactic theory. The collection of papers in this volume focuses on important issues, such as the nature of the relation between syntax and morphology in determining agreement relations; whether and which syntactic configurations are relevant for determining agreement; the relevance of verbal agreement for the purposes of EPP; the inquiry into the existence of connections between verbal and DP-internal agreement; on the morphological and syntactic distinction of person, number and gender agreement; how and why AGREE and Spec,head relations trigger different agreement effects; and the type of relation that exists between head-movement and morphological agreement. The data collected come from a wide variety of languages and the studies presented discuss innovative and thought-provoking ideas for dealing with agreement phenomena.

Grammar, Comparative and general --- Linguistics. --- Linguistic science --- Science of language --- Language and languages --- Agreement (Grammar) --- Concord (Grammar) --- Agreement. --- Concord --- Case --- Gender --- Number --- Person --- Syntax --- Linguistics --- Philology --- Grammar --- Comparative linguistics --- Agreement

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The aim of this book is to give the first large-scale typological investigation of pluractionality in the languages of the world. Pluractionality is defined as the morphological modification of the verb to express a plurality of situations that can additionally involve a plurality of participants and/or spaces. Based on a 246-language sample, the main characteristics of pluractionality are described and discussed throughout the book. Firstly, a description of the functions that pluractional markers cross-linguistically express is presented and the relationships occurring among them are explained through the semantic map model. Then, the marking strategies that languages display to express such functions are illustrated and some issues concerning the formal identification are briefly discussed as well. The typological generalizations are corroborated showing how pluractional markers work in three specific languages (Akawaio, Beja, Maa). In conclusion, the theoretical conceptualization of pluractionality is discussed referring to the Radical Construction Grammar approach.

Grammar --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Verb --- Agreement (Grammar) --- Concord (Grammar) --- Dual (Grammar) --- Number (Grammar) --- Plural (Grammar) --- Agreement --- Number --- Verb phrase --- Verbals --- Reflexives --- Concord --- Case --- Gender --- Person --- Syntax --- E-books --- Agreement. --- Number. --- Verb. --- Linguistics --- Philology