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Archi

Complexities of Agreement in Cross-Theoretical Perspective

By: Dunstan Brown (Editor), Oliver Bond (Editor), Marina Chumakina (Editor), Greville G. Corbett (Editor)

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Hardcover | 8 September 2016

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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 redundancy and arbitrariness. Agreement is a significant source of syntactic complexity, exacerbated by the great diversity of its morphological expression. Imagine how the discipline of linguistics would be if expert practitioners of different theories met in a collaborative setting to tackle such challenging agreement data - to test the limits of their models and examine how the predictions of their theories differ given the same linguistic facts. Following an overview of the essentials of Archi grammar and an introduction to the remarkable agreement phenomena found in this language, three distinct accounts of the Archi data examine the tractability and predictive power of major
syntactic theories: Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar, Lexical Functional Grammar, and Minimalism. The final chapter compares the problems encountered and the solutions proposed in the different syntactic analyses and outlines the implications of the challenges that the Archi agreement system poses for linguistic theory.

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The two main contributions of this wonderful volume are the presentation of extensive data about a complex agreement system and a sample of the ways in which different theories account for them. The juxtaposition of three theoretical analyses of the same range of data and their comparison promise that, in Bond, Corbett, and Chumakina's words, "a constructive dialogue across frameworks is not only possible but also fruitful." * Edith A. Moravcsik, Studies in Language *
This collective effort is an exemplary study of the grammar of an endangered language. Not only have the researchers collected original material but they have also demonstrated its importance for linguistics by providing good data, clear explanations, interesting theoretical approaches and by raising new questions. This book is a model of how productive results can be when linguists with various orientations collaborate. * Victor A. Friedman, Slavonic and East European Review *

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