{"product_id":"syntax-of-information-structural-agreement","title":"Syntax of Information-Structural Agreement","description":"In this research monograph, Johannes Mursell discusses the syntactic impact of information-structural features on agreement. So far, the syntactic contribution of this type of feature has mostly been reduced to movement of topics or foci clause-initial position. Here, the author looks at a different phenomenon, syntactic agreement, and how this process can be dependent on information-structural properties. Based partly on original fieldwork from a typologically diverse set of languages, including Tagalog, Swahili, and Lavukaleve, it is argued that for most areas for which information-structural features have been discussed, it is possible to find cases where these features influence phi-feature agreement. The analysis is then extended to cases of Association with Focus, which does not involve phi-features but can still be accounted for with agreement of information-structural features. The book achieves two main goals: first it provides a uniform analysis for different constructions in unrelated languages. Second, it also gives a new argument that information-structural features should be treated as genuine syntactic features.","brand":"John Benjamins Publishing Co","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54223588065624,"sku":"9789027209139","price":95.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9789027209139.jpg?v=1770704146","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/syntax-of-information-structural-agreement","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}