ABSTRACT

Typical cases of agreement are easy to identify, but where the boundaries of agreement lie depend on what aspects of the agreement relation are considered to be defining properties. It is a short step from viewing agreement in the traditional way, as a matching of features, to defining agreement as any relation that ensures consistency of information in two separate structures. This book takes as its topic agreement as it is traditionally conceived, one that only involves morphosyntactic categories.

chapter 1|21 pages

Introduction

chapter 2|24 pages

Agreement and Partial Information

chapter 3|52 pages

Agreement and Classification

chapter 4|56 pages

Agreement and Information Structures

chapter 5|99 pages

A Discourse-Linking Theory of Agreement

chapter 6|46 pages

Agreement in Arabic and English

chapter 7|16 pages

Agreement and Information