Book contents
- An Areal Typology of Agreement Systems
- An Areal Typology of Agreement Systems
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Part I Theoretical Prerequisites
- 1 Introduction
- 2 What Is Agreement?
- 3 Domains of Agreement and Categories Involved
- 4 Problems with Agreement
- 5 Grammatical, Ambiguous and Anaphoric Agreement
- 6 Marginal Agreement
- Part II Empirical Results
- Appendix: Languages in the Database
- References
- Language Index
- Subject Index
2 - What Is Agreement?
from Part I - Theoretical Prerequisites
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 May 2018
Book contents
- An Areal Typology of Agreement Systems
- An Areal Typology of Agreement Systems
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Part I Theoretical Prerequisites
- 1 Introduction
- 2 What Is Agreement?
- 3 Domains of Agreement and Categories Involved
- 4 Problems with Agreement
- 5 Grammatical, Ambiguous and Anaphoric Agreement
- 6 Marginal Agreement
- Part II Empirical Results
- Appendix: Languages in the Database
- References
- Language Index
- Subject Index
Summary
Chapter 2 starts with the general definition of agreement mostly found in textbooks and reference works (“systematic covariance between a semantic or formal property of one element and a formal property of another” (cf. Corbett 2006: 4, Wechsler 2015: 309)). After discussing this definition, we attempt to make it more operational for typological sampling, especially for determining whether a language has agreement or not, as well as for determining the typological parameters according to which languages with agreement differ.
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- An Areal Typology of Agreement Systems , pp. 12 - 19Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2018