Ranko Matasovic

An Areal Typology of Agreement Systems

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The first areal-typological exploration of agreement systems in the world's languages.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 214
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juni 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 485g
• ISBN-13: 9781108420976
• ISBN-10: 1108420974
• Artikelnr.: 50447647

Autorenporträt

Ranko Matasovi¿ is Professor of Comparative Linguistics in the University of Zagreb and a Fellow of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts. He has published thirteen books in Croatia and abroad, including Gender in Indo-European (2004) and Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (2009).

Inhaltsangabe

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
7. The sample of languages
8. Areal and genetic patterns in agreement systems
9. Typological correlations in agreement systems
10. Diachronic patterns in the development of agreement
11. Conclusions.