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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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This book explores the view that impoverishment and Agree operations are part of a single grammatical component. The architecture set forth here gives rise tocomplex but highly systematic interactions between the two operations. This interaction is shown to provide a unified and general account of apparentlydiverse and unrelated intances of eccentric argument encoding that so far haveremained elusive to a unified theoretical account. The proposed view of the grammatical architecture achieves an integration of these phenomena withinbetter-studied languages and thus gives rise to a more general theory of caseand agreement phenomena. The empirical evidence on the basis of which the proposal is developed drawsfrom a wide range of typologically non-related languages, including Basque, Hindi, Icelandic, Itelmen, Marathi, Nez Perce, Niuean, Punjabi, Sahaptin, Selayarese, Yukaghir, and Yurok . The proposal has far-reaching consequences for the study of grammatical architecture, linguistic interfaces, derivational locality in apparently non-local dependencies and the role of functional considerations in formal approaches tothe human language faculty.

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

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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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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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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