The Rise of Agreement: A formal approach to the syntax and grammaticalization of verbal inflectionJohn Benjamins Publishing, 13 oct 2005 - 336 páginas This book investigates the historical paths leading from pronouns to markers of verbal agreement and proposes a unified formal account of this grammaticalization process. In opposition to beliefs widely held in the literature, it is argued that new agreement formatives can be coined in a multitude of syntactic environments. Still, the individual paths toward agreement are shown to exhibit a set of underlying similarities which are attributed to universal principles that govern the reanalysis of pronominal clitics as exponents of verbal agreement across languages. It is claimed that syntactic principles impose only a set of necessary conditions on the reanalysis in question, while its ultimate trigger is morphological in nature. More specifically, it is argued that the acquisition of inflectional morphology is governed by blocking effects which operate during language acquisition and promote the grammaticalization of new markers if this change serves to replace worn-out , underspecified forms with new, more specified candidates. |
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The structural design of agreement | 55 |
The transition from pronoun to inflectional marker | 129 |
The reanalysis of Coriented clitics | 157 |
Morphological blocking and the rise of agreement | 229 |
Concluding summary | 299 |
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2nd person forms 3rd person Agr-on-C Agree agreement ending agreement formatives agreement markers agreement morpheme agreement paradigm agreement suffixes analysis argued assumed assumption Bavarian Blocking Principle Buryat c-command C-oriented clitics change in question Chapter Chomsky clitic doubling clitic pronouns complementizer agreement configuration confined contrast diachronic discussion dissociated Agr-morpheme distinctions Distributed Morphology embedded clause enclitic example exhibit fact feature content finite verb first functional categories functional heads German giving rise grammar grammaticalization process Haiman Hellendoorn inflectional inflectional markers inversion contexts Iulien lexical lexical categories licensed Linder Marantz ment morphological Note obligatory overt p-features person/number phonological post-syntactic prefixal prefixes present pro-drop proclitic realization reanalyzed reflect relevant Rhaeto-Romance Roussou Section similar specified SpecTP structural simplification subject agreement subject clitics subject pronoun suffixal agreement suffixes Sutselvan Swiss RR dialects syntactic derivation syntax Tarahumara tense triggered Tsez Uto-Aztecan languages verbal agreement markers Vocabulary items Walser German West Flemish