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Phi-Features and the Modular Architecture of Language

Phi-Features and the Modular Architecture of Language

Rezac, Milan

Paperback

Series: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, Book 81

Grammar & StyleLinguistics

ISBN10: 9400734298
ISBN13: 9789400734296
Publisher: Springer
Published: Jan 2 2013
Pages: 326
Weight: 1.07
Height: 0.72 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
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.

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