TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rezac,Milan
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - Phi-features and the Modular Architecture of Language
T2  - Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory,
SN  - 9789048196982
AV  - P1-1091 
U1  - 410 23
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Dordrecht
PB  - Springer Netherlands, Imprint: Springer
KW  - Linguistics
KW  - Grammar, Comparative and general
KW  - Syntax
KW  - Linguistics (general)
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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