Book contents
- An Areal Typology of Agreement Systems
- An Areal Typology of Agreement Systems
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Part I Theoretical Prerequisites
- 1 Introduction
- 2 What Is Agreement?
- 3 Domains of Agreement and Categories Involved
- 4 Problems with Agreement
- 5 Grammatical, Ambiguous and Anaphoric Agreement
- 6 Marginal Agreement
- Part II Empirical Results
- Appendix: Languages in the Database
- References
- Language Index
- Subject Index
5 - Grammatical, Ambiguous and Anaphoric Agreement
from Part I - Theoretical Prerequisites
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 May 2018
Book contents
- An Areal Typology of Agreement Systems
- An Areal Typology of Agreement Systems
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Part I Theoretical Prerequisites
- 1 Introduction
- 2 What Is Agreement?
- 3 Domains of Agreement and Categories Involved
- 4 Problems with Agreement
- 5 Grammatical, Ambiguous and Anaphoric Agreement
- 6 Marginal Agreement
- Part II Empirical Results
- Appendix: Languages in the Database
- References
- Language Index
- Subject Index
Summary
Chapter 5 attempts to extend Siewierska’s (1999, 2004) typology of verbal agreement (in person) to adnominal agreement as well. We argue that comparing types of agreement patterns in both domains (the clause for verbal, the NP for adnominal agreement) makes cross-linguistic sense only if we limit our investigation to ambiguous agreement, and this is generally done in the rest of the book.
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- An Areal Typology of Agreement Systems , pp. 63 - 70Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2018