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mods:
  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Phi-features and the Modular Architecture of Language
  name:
    name part: Rezac, Milan.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2011
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XVII, 326 p. online resource.
  abstract: This monograph investigates the modular architecture of language through the nature of "uninterpretable" phi-features: person, number, gender, and Case. It provides new tools and evidence for the modular architecture of the human language faculty, a foundational topic of linguistic research. At the same time it develops a new theory for one of the core issues posed by the Minimalist Program: the relationship of syntax to its interfaces and the nature of uninterpretable features. The work sets out to establish a new cross-linguistic phenomenon to study the foregoing, person-governed last-resort repairs, which provides new insights into the nature of ergative/accusative Case and of Case licensing itself. This is the first monograph that explicitly addresses the syntactic vs. morphological status of uninterpretable phi-features and their relationship to interface systems in a similar way, drawing on person-based interactions among arguments as key data-base.
  table of contents: Acknowledgments -- Conventions and glosses -- Preface -- 1 Modularity, phi-features, and repairs -- 2 Phi-features in realizational morphology -- 3 Person Hierarchy interactions in syntax -- 4 Person Case Constraint repairs in French -- 5 Repairs and uninterpretable features -- 6 Phi in syntax and phi interpretation -- Name and Subject index.
  note: by Milan Rezac.
  subject:
    topic: Linguistics
  subject:
    topic: Syntax
  subject:
    topic: Linguistics
  subject:
    topic: Linguistics, general
  subject:
    topic: Syntax
  classification: P1-1091
  classification: 410
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 81
  identifier: 9789048196982
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9698-2
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    record creation date: 101112
    record change date: 20151204152057.0
    record identifier: 978-90-481-9698-2