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Thomas Stolz

Word-internal agreement

Keywords: morphology, agreement, word, univerbation, naturalness

This paper is meant to demonstrate that agreement phenomena are by no means re-stricted to morpho-syntactic relations which connect separate words of an utterance to one another. It is shown that similar patterns can be observed also word-internally i.e. in a morphologically complex word, there are at least two slots in which fillers occur that encode the same or partially identical sets of grammatical categories. The paper adduces evidence from a variety of languages of different parts of the world whose morphological systems allow for word-internal agreement. Since the phenomenon is attested more often than expected, it deserves an in-depth treatment for which this contribution is paving the way.

STUF – Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung, Akademie Verlag

Print ISSN: 0942-2919
Volume: 60, 03/2007
Pages: 219 - 251

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