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Phi Theory Daniel Harbour (, Queen Mary, University of London)

Phi Theory By Daniel Harbour (, Queen Mary, University of London)

Summary

This book brings together the different strands and styles of research on Phi-features, such as person, number, and gender. It presents the core questions, major results, and new directions of this area of linguistic theory and shows how Phi Theory casts light on the nature of interfaces and the structure of the grammar.

Phi Theory Summary

Phi Theory: Phi-Features Across Modules and Interfaces by Daniel Harbour (, Queen Mary, University of London)

Phi-features, such as person, number, and gender, present a rare opportunity for syntacticians, morphologists and semanticists to collaborate on a research enterprise in which they all have an equal stake and which they all approach with data and insights from their own fields. This volume is the first to attempt to bring together these different strands and styles of research. It presents the core questions, major results, and new directions of this emergent area of linguistic theory and shows how Phi Theory casts light on the nature of interfaces and the structure of the grammar. The book will interest scholars and students of all aspects of linguistic theory at graduate level and above.

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a remarkable contribution. * Hedde Zeijlstra, The Journal of Linguistics *

About Daniel Harbour (, Queen Mary, University of London)

Daniel Harbour is a Research Fellow at Queen Mary, University of London. His primary research interest is features, from interpretation to pronunciation. His publications include Morphosemantic Number (Springer 2007) and An Intelligent Person's Guide to Atheism (Duckworth 2001). David Adger is Professor of Linguistics at Queen Mary, University of London. He is author of Core Syntax (OUP 2003) and co-editor of the journal Syntax. His publications on syntax and its interfaces with other components of the grammar include articles in Language, Linguistic Inquiry and Natural Language and Linguistic Theory. Susana Bejar is a Lecturer in Linguistics at the University of Toronto. Her research investigates complexity in morphosyntactic systems. Her book, Phi-Syntax: A Theory of Agreement, is in preparation for publication in this series.

Table of Contents

1. Why Phi? ; 2. Features on Bound Pronouns ; 3. On the Semantic Markedness of Phi Features ; 4. Phi-Agree and Theta-Related Case ; 5. Conditions on Phi-Agree ; 6. Phi Feature Competition in Morphology and Syntax ; 7. Discontinuous Agreement and the Syntax Morphology Interface ; 8. Third Person Marking in Menominee ; 9. When is a Syncretism More Than a Syncretism? ; 10. Where's Phi? Agreement as a Post Syntactic Operation ; 11. Cross-Modular Parallels in the Study of Phon and Phi

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NPB9780199213764
9780199213764
0199213763
Phi Theory: Phi-Features Across Modules and Interfaces by Daniel Harbour (, Queen Mary, University of London)
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Hardback
Oxford University Press
2008-05-01
392
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