AGREEMENT CONFIGURATIONS: GRAMMATICAL RELATIONS IN MODULAR GRAMMAR

• Main Author: Matthew John Alexander
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Hale; Dogrib
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.1030.6347; http://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/13165/26621183-MIT.pdf%3Bjsessionid%3DD85853B348EB0E5D232409B8C272D922?sequence%3D2

This thesis presents an analysis of the relationship between grammatical agreement and so-called 'non-configurationality'. We argue that the properties of non-configurational languages should be made to follow from independently motivated principles of agreement. We explore the contrast, d...