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Archi OXFORD STUDIES OF ENDANGERED LANGUAGES Generaleditor:StephenR.Anderson,YaleUniversity Advisory editors: W. F. H. Adelaar, University of Leiden; Peter Austin, School of Oriental and African Studies; Jonathan David Bobaljik, University of Connecticut; ClaireBowern,YaleUniversity;DavidBradley,LaTrobeUniversity;SandraChung, University of California, Santa Cruz; Alice C. Harris, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; K. David Harrison, Swarthmore College; Larry Hyman, University of California, Berkeley; Christian Lehmann, University of Erfurt; Osahito Miyaoka, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig; Pamela Munro, UniversityofCalifornia,LosAngeles PUBLISHED KayardildMorphologyandSyntax ErichR.Round TheClause-TypingSystemofPlainsCree Indexicality,Anaphoricity,andContrast ClareCook ToneandAccentinOklahomaCherokee HirotoUchihara Archi ComplexitiesofAgreementinCross-TheoreticalPerspective EditedbyOliverBond,GrevilleG.Corbett,MarinaChumakina, andDunstanBrown INPREPARATION Surmiran ASwissRumantschLanguage StephenR.Anderson HeadMarkinginYucatecMaya ElisabethNorcliffe Archi Complexities of Agreement in Cross-Theoretical Perspective Edited by OLIVER BOND, GREVILLE G. CORBETT, MARINA CHUMAKINA, AND DUNSTAN BROWN 1 OUPCORRECTEDPROOF–FINAL,30/7/2016,SPi 3 GreatClarendonStreet,Oxford,OXDP, UnitedKingdom OxfordUniversityPressisadepartmentoftheUniversityofOxford. 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OUPCORRECTEDPROOF–FINAL,30/7/2016,SPi Contents GeneralPreface xi Preface xiii ListofAbbreviations xv ListofContributors xxi  Introduction  OliverBond,GrevilleG.Corbett,andMarinaChumakina . Rationale  .. Amethodforcomparingsyntactictheories  .. Archiasanextremeagreementsystem  .. Agreementasasandboxforcomparingsyntactictheories  . Anintroductiontorepresentationaldevicesinsyntactictheory  .. Head-drivenPhraseStructureGrammar  .. LexicalFunctionalGrammar  .. Minimalism  . Agreementterminology  . Structureofthebook   EssentialsofArchigrammar  MarinaChumakina,OliverBond,andGrevilleG.Corbett . Languagebackground  . Phonology  .. Thevowelinventory  .. Theconsonantinventory  . Featurespecificationandexponence  .. Agreementfeatures  .. Exponentsofagreement  ... Prefixes  ... Infixes  ... Suffixes  . Themorphologyandsyntaxofarguments  .. Grammaticalcases  .. Spatialcases  .. Syntacticpropertiesofarguments  ... Constituentorder  ... Syntacticallyprivilegedarguments  OUPCORRECTEDPROOF–FINAL,30/7/2016,SPi vi Contents . Theparadigmaticstructureofverbs  .. Finiteverbforms  .. Non-finiteverbforms  . Conclusion   Agreementdomainsandtargets  OliverBondandMarinaChumakina . Introduction  . Agreementinthenounphrase  .. Demonstratives  .. Attributives  .. Genitivenounsandpronouns  .. Numerals  . Agreementintheclause  .. Verbs  ... Finiteverbforms  ... Non-finiteverbforms  .. Attributivesaspredicativecomplements  .. Pronouns  .. Adverbs  .. Thepostpositioneq’en  .. Theemphaticclitic=ejt’u  . Conclusion   Competingcontrollersandagreementpotential  MarinaChumakinaandOliverBond . Introduction  . Typicalandatypicalcontrollers  .. Conjoinedphrases  .. Numeralphrases  . Competingcontrollers:Biabsolutiveconstructions  .. Thesemanticsofbiabsolutiveconstructions  .. Non-verbaltargetsinbiabsolutiveconstructions  ... Agreeingadverbsinbiabsolutiveconstructions  ... Agreeingpronounsinbiabsolutiveconstructions  ... Agreeingemphaticcliticinbiabsolutiveconstructions  .. Thesyntacticstatusofabsolutiveobjects  ... Separationoftheobjectfromtheconverb  ... Modification  ... Dislocation  OUPCORRECTEDPROOF–FINAL,30/7/2016,SPi Contents vii ... Questioningandfocusing  ... Pronominalreplacement  ... Relativization  .. Biabsolutiveconstructionversuspredicativecomplements  . Agreementpotential  .. Agreeingversusnon-agreeingverbs  .. Agreeingversusnon-agreeingadverbs  .. Agreeingversusnon-agreeingpostpositions  .. Agreeingversusnon-agreeingmodifiers  ... Nominaladjectives  ... Quantifiers  . Conclusion   HPSGandthenatureofagreementinArchi  RobertD.Borsley . Introduction  . AgreementinHPSG  . Somepreliminaries  . Clausalagreement  .. Lexicalapproachestoclausalagreement  .. Structuralapproachestoclausalagreement  .. Somefurtheragreementtargets  . Nominalagreement  .. Basicanalyses  .. Numerals  .. Moreonattributives  . Concludingremarks   AgreementinArchi:AnLFGperspective  LouisaSadler . Introduction  .. Hybridbehaviour  .. Expressinglexicalgeneralizations  . Agreementintheclausaldomain  .. Morphologicalorsyntacticergativity  .. Statingagreementconstraints  .. Usingpivot  .. Otheragreementtargets  . Agreementinthenominaldomain  .. Possessors  .. Attributives  .. Coordinationofattributivemodifiers  OUPCORRECTEDPROOF–FINAL,30/7/2016,SPi viii Contents .. Attributivemodifiersfromotherbases  .. Moreondeverbals  .. Numerals  . Biabsolutives  .. Otheragreementtargets  . Conclusionandsummary   AgreementinArchifromaminimalistperspective  MariaPolinsky . Introductoryremarks  . Agreementinminimalistsyntax  .. Basicprinciplesofagreement:Agree  .. Basicprinciplesofagreement:Concord  .. DistributedMorphology  . ClausalagreementinArchi  .. ThecomponentsofArchistructure  ... Genderspecification  ... Theroleof[GENDER]  ... Hierarchyofargumentsintheclause  .. ThesyntaxofArchiagreement(andcase)  ... TheverbphraseasthelocusoflicensingofArchicase andagreement  ... DerivingbasicstructuresinArchi  . Moreunusualcasesofagreementwithinaclause  .. Agreeingadverbs  .. Clauseswithstativeverbalpredicates  .. Variable(‘semantic’)agreement  ... Pluringulars  ... Archipluringulars  . Agreementwithinthenounphrase  .. Therangeoffactstobeaccountedfor  .. Attributivemodifiersasadjoinedphrases  .. Archiattributivemodifiers  ... Archiattributivemodifiersasreducedrelativeclauses  ... Archiattributivemodifiersthatarenotrelativeclauses  .. Attributiveagreement:Concord  . Conclusions   Archiasabasisforcomparingdifferentframeworks  DunstanBrownandPeterSells . Introduction  . ClausesandagreementinArchi  OUPCORRECTEDPROOF–FINAL,30/7/2016,SPi Contents ix .. Clausehoodandnumeralphrases  .. ClausehoodandtheArchibiabsolutive  .. Issuesofscope  ... Adverbs  ... Negation  . Theframeworksandthefournecessaryproperties  .. HPSGandthefournecessaryproperties  ... HPSGandthespeciallowerV  ... HPSGandthespecialhigherV  ... HPSG’smeansforsituatingthelowerVwithinthe higherone  ... HPSG’smeansfordefiningastructuraldomainwith oneabsolutiveargument  .. LFGandthefournecessaryproperties  ... LFGandthespeciallowerV  ... LFGandthespecialhigherV  ... LFG’smeansforsituatingthelowerVwithrespectto thehigherone  ... LFG’smeansfordefiningastructuraldomainwithone absolutiveargument  .. Minimalismandthefournecessaryproperties  ... MinimalismandthespeciallowerV  ... MinimalismandthespecialhigherV  ... Minimalism’smeansforsituatingthelowerVwithin thehigherone  ... Minimalism’smeansfordefiningastructuraldomain withoneabsolutiveargument  . Conclusion  References  AuthorIndex  LanguageIndex  SubjectIndex 

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This book presents a controlled evaluation of three widely practised syntactic theories on the basis of the extremely complex agreement system of Archi, an endangered Nakh-Daghestanian language. Even straightforward agreement examples are puzzling for syntacticians because agreement involves both re