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Cross-Linguistic Studies of Imposters and Pronominal Agreement Chris Collins (Professor of Linguistics, Professor of Linguistics, New York University)

Cross-Linguistic Studies of Imposters and Pronominal Agreement By Chris Collins (Professor of Linguistics, Professor of Linguistics, New York University)

Cross-Linguistic Studies of Imposters and Pronominal Agreement by Chris Collins (Professor of Linguistics, Professor of Linguistics, New York University)


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Explores verbal and pronominal agreement with imposters from a cross-linguistic perspective. Contributions describe imposters in Bangla, Spanish, Albanian, Indonesian, Italian, French, Romanian, Mandarin and Icelandic.

Cross-Linguistic Studies of Imposters and Pronominal Agreement Summary

Cross-Linguistic Studies of Imposters and Pronominal Agreement by Chris Collins (Professor of Linguistics, Professor of Linguistics, New York University)

Imposters are third person DPs that are used to refer to the speaker/writer or addressee, such as : (i) Your humble servant finds the time before our next encounter very long. (ii) This reporter thinks that the current developments are extraordinary. (iii) Daddy will be back before too long. (iv) The present author finds the logic of the reply faulty. This volume explores verbal and pronominal agreement with imposters from a cross-linguistic perspective. The central questions for any given language are: (a) How do singular and plural imposters agree with the verb? (b) When a pronoun has an imposter antecedent, what are the phi-features of the pronoun? The volume reveals a remarkable degree of variation in the answers to these questions, but also reveals some underlying generalizations. The contributions describe imposters in Bangla, Spanish, Albanian, Indonesian, Italian, French, Romanian, Mandarin and Icelandic.

About Chris Collins (Professor of Linguistics, Professor of Linguistics, New York University)

Chris Collins is a professor in the Department of Linguistics at New York University. He received his Ph.D. in linguistics from MIT in 1993. He specializes syntactic theory, including the syntax of English and the syntax of African languages.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction ; Chris Collins ; 2. (Il)-licit Pronoun-Antecedent Relations in Bangla ; Satarupa Das ; 3. Spanish Imposters and Verbal Agreement ; Rachel Dudley ; 4. Some Observations on Imposters in Albanian ; Dalina Kallulli ; 5. The Syntax of Indonesian Imposters ; Daniel Kaufman ; 6. Imposters and Secondary Sources in Italian ; Emilio Servidio ; 7. Person Imposters: The View from Two Romance Languages ; Gabriela Soare ; 8. Mandarin Pseudo-Imposters ; Arthur Wang ; 9. Icelandic Verbal Agreement and Pronoun-Antecedent Relations ; Jim Wood and Einar Freyr Sigurdsson ; 10. Indefinite Imposters ; Violeta Vazquez Rojas

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NLS9780199336869
9780199336869
0199336865
Cross-Linguistic Studies of Imposters and Pronominal Agreement by Chris Collins (Professor of Linguistics, Professor of Linguistics, New York University)
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Oxford University Press Inc
2014-04-17
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