This page intentionally left blank THE SYNTAX OF AGREEMENT AND CONCORD Inthisseries 75 liliane haegeman:Thesyntaxofnegation 76 paul gorrel:Syntaxandparsing 77 guglielmo cinque:Italiansyntaxanduniversalgrammar 78 henry smith:Restrictivenessincasetheory 79 d. robert ladd:Intonationalmorphology 80 andrea moro:Theraisingofpredicates:predicativenounphrasesandthetheory ofclausestructure 81 roger lass:Historicallinguisticsandlanguagechange 82 john m. anderson:Anotionaltheoryofsyntacticcategories 83 bernd heine:Possession:cognitivesources,forcesandgrammaticalization 84 nomt erteschik-shir:Thedynamicsoffocusstructure 85 john coleman:Phonologicalrepresentations:theirnames,formsandpowers 86 christina y. bethin:Slavicprosody:languagechangeandphonologicaltheory 87 barbara dancygier:Conditionalsandprediction 88 claire lefebvre:Creolegenesisandtheacquisitionofgrammar:thecaseof Haitiancreole 89 heinz giegerich:LexicalstratainEnglish 90 keren rice:Morphemeorderandsemanticscope 91 april mcmahon:LexicalphonologyandthehistoryofEnglish 92 matthew y. chen:ToneSandhi:patternsacrossChinesedialects 93 gregory t. stump:Inflectionalmorphology:atheoryofparadigmstructure 94 joan bybee:Phonologyandlanguageuse 95 laurie bauer:Morphologicalproductivity 96 thomas ernst:Thesyntaxofadjuncts 97 elizabeth closs traugottandrichard b. dasher:Regularityin semanticchange 98 maya hickmann:Children’sdiscourse:Person,spaceandtimeacrosslanguages 99 diane blakemore:Relevanceandlinguisticmeaning:thesemanticsand pragmaticsofdiscoursemarkers 100 ian robertsandanna roussou:Syntacticchange:aminimalistapproachto grammaticalization 101 donka minkova:AlliterationandsoundchangeinearlyEnglish 102 mark c. baker:Lexicalcategories:verbs,nounsandadjectives 103 carlota s. smith:Modesofdiscourse:thelocalstructureoftexts 104 rochelle lieber:Morphologyandlexicalsemantics 105 holger diessel:Theacquisitionofcomplexsentences 106 sharon inkelasandcheryl zoll:Reduplication:doublinginmorphology 107 susan edwards:Fluentaphasia 108 barbara dancygierandeve sweetser:Mentalspacesingrammar: conditionalconstructions 109 hew baerman, dunstan brownandgreville g. corbett:The syntax-morphologyinterface:astudyofsyncretism 110 marcus tomalin:Linguisticsandtheformalsciences:theoriginsofgenerative grammar 111 saumuel d. epsteinandt. daniel seely:Derivationsinminimalism 112 paul de lacy:Markedness:reductionandpreservationinphonology 113 yehuda n. falk:Subjectsandtheirproperties 114 p. h. matthews:Syntacticrelations:acriticalsurvey 115 mark c. baker:Thesyntaxofagreementandconcord Earlierissuesnotlistedarealsoavailable CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN LINGUISTICS Generaleditors:p. austin, j. bresnan, b. comrie, s. crain, w. dressler, c. j. ewen, r. lass, d. lightfoot, k. rice, i. roberts, s. romaine, n. v. smith The Syntax of Agreement and Concord THE SYNTAX OF AGREEMENT AND CONCORD MARK C. BAKER RutgersUniversity CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, São Paulo Cambridge University Press The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge CB2 8RU, UK Published in the United States of America by Cambridge University Press, New York www.cambridge.org Information on this title: www.cambridge.org/9780521855471 © Mark Baker 2008 This publication is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provision of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press. First published in print format 2008 ISBN-13 978-0-511-38884-2 eBook (NetLibrary) ISBN-13 978-0-521-85547-1 hardback ISBN-13 978-0-521-67156-9 paperback Cambridge University Press has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of urls for external or third-party internet websites referred to in this publication, and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate. Thisbookisdedicatedtothethreewonderfulchildren–Catherine, Nicholas,andJulia–thatGodhasgivenmetoenlivenmyjourney throughthislife.Ionlyaskthattheynotfightaboutwhogetstobe thenoun,whotheverb,andwhotheadjective.
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