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Agree as information transmission over dependencies

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ID4238232
AuthorsMarina Ermolaeva (0000-0001-7796-7963, University of Chicago, corresponding author), Gregory M Kobele (0000-0002-1051-8503, Leipzig University, corresponding author)
Year2022
Volume25
Issue4
Pages466-507
Publication date2022-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSyntax (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1368-0005 • E-ISSN: 1467-9612
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/synt.12240
OpenAlexW4292457866
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited30

In contemporary Minimalism agreement is the result of a syntactic operation. In contrast to Merge, Agree does not build structure, its role being to transmit morphological features from one head to another. We provide an alternative perspective on agreement in a Minimalist idiom, one that cuts the ontological pie in a different way. Syntax has as its only operation Merge, and agreement, now divorced from syntax, transfers purely morphological information from head to head alongchannelsestablished via syntactic feature checking. Separating agreement from structure building seems to enable more elegant descriptions of even complicated agreement phenomena

Agreement · Feature (linguistics · Head (geology · Human–computer interaction · Information retrieval · Information Structure · Information transmission · Linguistics · Merge (version control · Minimalism (technical communication · Minimalist program · Natural language processing · Perspective (graphical · Syntactic structure · Syntax · Computer Science · Historical Linguistics and Language Studies · Linguistics and Discourse Analysis · Philosophy · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation · Artificial Intelligence

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Unique citing works1
Citations per year0,33
Citation span2023 - 2023 (1)
Citation velocityhistorical
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 1
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