Phi-features, such as person, number, and gender, present a rare opportunity for syntacticians, morphologists and semanticists to collaborate on a research enterprise in which they all have an equal stake and which they all approach with data and insights from their own fields. This volume is the first to attempt to bring together these different strands and styles of research. It presents the core questions, major results, and new directions of this emergent area of linguistic theory and shows how Phi Theory casts light on the nature of interfaces and the structure of the grammar. The book will interest scholars and students of all aspects of linguistic theory at graduate level and above.
Author(s): Daniel Harbour, David Adger, Susana B_r
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Year: 2008
Language: English
Pages: 320
Contents......Page 6
General Preface......Page 8
Notes on Contributors......Page 9
Abbreviations......Page 11
1 Why Phi?......Page 16
2 Features on Bound Pronouns......Page 50
3 On the Semantic Markedness of Phi-Features......Page 72
4 Phi-Agree and Theta-Related Case......Page 98
5 Conditions on Phi-Agree......Page 145
6 Phi-Feature Competition in Morphology and Syntax......Page 170
7 Discontinuous Agreement and the Syntax–Morphology Interface......Page 200
8 Third Person Marking in Menominee......Page 236
9 When is a Syncretism more than a Syncretism?......Page 266
10 Where’s Phi? Agreement as a Postsyntactic Operation......Page 310
11 Cross-Modular Parallels in the Study of Phon and Phi......Page 344
Feature Index......Page 384
D......Page 386
L......Page 387
U......Page 388
V......Page 389
S......Page 390
Y......Page 391
