Unifying nominal and verbal inflection: Agreement and feature realization

Peter Ackema; Ad Neeleman

Unifying nominal and verbal inflection: Agreement and feature realization

School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences

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Remarks on Nominalization argues that the parallel syntax of nominal and verbal projections originates in abstract principles that generalise over the two domains. This line of analysis gave rise to the development of X-bar theory (Jackendoff 1977) and the theory of extended projection (Grimshaw 1991). In this chapter we will pursue this theme, but instead of focusing on the internal structure of NP and VP, we will consider agreement phenomena. This is of interest, because it is arguably the case that there are two distinct phenomena, one which appears to be common in the VP and one which appears to be common in the NP. We refer to the two phenomena as agreement and concord, respectively. (For a discussion of terminology, see Corbett 2006:5-7; for an overview of the typology of and approaches to concord, see Norris 2017.)

Erratum: The example in (25) should be replaced by:
(25) ein gut-e-s Ende-n
a good-JOIN-ACC.NEUT.SG end-INFL
'a good end'

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Nominalization
Subtitle of host publication	50 Years on from Chomsky's Remarks
Editors	Artemis Alexiadou, Hagit Borer
Place of Publication	Oxford
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Chapter	3
Pages	29-52
Number of pages	24
ISBN (Print)	9780198865544, 9780198865582
Publication status	Published - 19 Nov 2020

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Name	Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Volume	76

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Unifying nominal and verbal syntax: Agreement and feature realization Ackema, P. & Neeleman, A., 19 Nov 2020, Nominalization: 50 Years on from Chomsky's Remarks. Alexiadou, A. & Borer, H. (eds.). Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 29-52 24 p. (Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics; vol. 76). Reproduced by permission of Oxford University Press https://global.oup.com/academic/product/nominalization-9780198865544?lang=en&cc=gb#
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Nominalization: 50 Years on from Chomsky's Remarks. ed. / Artemis Alexiadou; Hagit Borer. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. p. 29-52 (Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics; Vol. 76).

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