Agreement beyond the Verb: Unusual Targets, Unexpected Domains

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Contents
Preface
List of tables
List of abbreviations
The contributors
1 Unusual agreement targets in unexpected domains
	Oliver Bond, Marina Chumakina, and Steven Kaye
	1.1 Introduction
	1.2 Non-verbal agreement targets
		1.2.1 Complementizers and other conjunctions
		1.2.2 Adpositions
		1.2.3 Nouns
		1.2.4 Pronouns
		1.2.5 Adverbs
		1.2.6 Particles and discourse markers
		1.2.7 Converbs
		1.2.8 Coordinators
	1.3 Syntactic constraints on non-verbal agreement targets
		1.3.1 Phrase-level agreement
		1.3.2 Clause-level agreement
		1.3.3 Clause-level concord
		1.3.4 Clause-external agreement
		1.3.5 Clause-level agreement alternations
	1.4 Summary
	1.5 Outline of the volume
2 Agreement between arguments in Andi
	Steven Kaye
	2.1 Agreement between arguments as a disputed notion
	2.2 An introduction to Andi
		2.2.1 Fundamentals of the language
		2.2.2 Agreement and case marking
		2.2.3 The affective case and the affective construction
	2.3 Experiencer predicates in cross-linguistic perspective
	2.4 Subjecthood and the Andi affective construction
		2.4.1 The syntax of imperative clauses
		2.4.2 The simple reflexive construction
		2.4.3 Interactions with syntactic control
		2.4.4 Coreference with aorist converbs
	2.5 Taking stock: some drawbacks of alternative interpretations
	2.6 Conclusions
3 Agreement of essive adverbials in Tanti Dargwa
	Nina Sumbatova
	3.1 Introduction
	3.2 Grammatical information on Tanti Dargwa
		3.2.1 Typological profile of Tanti Dargwa
		3.2.2 Gender agreement and two classes of agreement targets
	3.3 Clause structure
		3.3.1 Basic model
		3.3.2 Arguments in favour of the backward control hypothesis
	3.4 The agreement of essive adverbials
		3.4.1 Morphology of locative adverbials
		3.4.2 Gender agreement on essive adverbials: basic facts
	3.5 Gender agreement of essive adverbials in different clause types
		3.5.1 Independent finite clauses without a copula (B)
		3.5.2 'Unmarked' independent clauses (C)
		3.5.3 Non-finite dependent clauses (D)
		3.5.4 Dependent clauses headed by non-finite forms of the copula (E)
		3.5.5 Conditional and concessive clauses (F)
		3.5.6 Generalizations concerning clause types
	3.6 Additional agreement options
		3.6.1 Long-distance agreement
		3.6.2 Agreement of deverbal locatives
	3.7 Conclusions
4 Agreeing adverbs in Enets
	Marina Chumakina
	4.1 Introduction
	4.2 Morphosyntactic profile of Enets
		4.2.1 Morphosyntactic features of nouns
		4.2.2 Morphosyntactic features of verbs
	4.3 Adverbial agreement in Enets
		4.3.1 Agreeing adverbs in existing grammatical descriptions
		4.3.2 Adverbial agreement: lexicon and diachronic sources
		4.3.3 Adverbial agreement: morphology
		4.3.4 Adverbial agreement: syntax
		4.3.5 Deviations in the agreement behaviour of adverbs
	4.4 Agreeing adverbs in Tundra Nenets
	4.5 Agreeing adverbs in Nganasan and Selkup
	4.6 Conclusions
5 Unusual agreement targets in Ripano
	Tania Paciaroni
	5.1 Introduction
	5.2 Data and methodology
	5.3 Feature specifications and exponence
		5.3.1 Inflectional and agreement features
		5.3.2 Agreement potential: agreeing vs non-agreeing unusual targets
		5.3.3 Exponents of agreement
		5.3.4 The inventory of final vowels
	5.4 Familiar agreement domains and targets
		5.4.1 Agreement in the noun phrase
		5.4.2 Agreement in the clause
	5.5 Unusual agreement targets
		5.5.1 Numerals
		5.5.2 Prepositions
		5.5.3 Non-finite verb forms
		5.5.4 Adverbs
		5.5.5 Wh-words
		5.5.6 Complementizers
		5.5.7 Nouns
	5.6 Conclusions
6 External agreement in Khwarshi
	Marina Chumakina and Ekaterina Lyutikova
	6.1 Introduction
	6.2 Khwarshi: general information
	6.3 Unusual target agreement in Khwarshi and other Tsezic languages
		6.3.1 Prefixally agreeing adverbs
		6.3.2 Infixally agreeing adverbs
		6.3.3 Suffixally agreeing adverbs
	6.4 Syntactic properties of adverbial agreement: choice of controller
		6.4.1 Controller of adverbial agreement
		6.4.2 External agreement in biabsolutive constructions
		6.4.3 LDA of adverbials
		6.4.4 Coding of information structure
	6.5 Conclusions
7 Agreeing postpositions and unexpected agreement in Coastal Marind
	Bruno Olsson
	7.1 Introduction
	7.2 Structural overview of Coastal Marind
	7.3 Overview of gender agreement
	7.4 Unexpected agreement on adjuncts headed by lek `from'
		7.4.1 Distinguishing secondary predicates from adverbials in Coastal Marind
		7.4.2 The status of adjuncts headed by lek `from'
		7.4.3 Agreement on locative adjuncts across languages
		7.4.4 Variable agreement in `because'-expressions
	7.5 Unexpected agreement on other targets
		7.5.1 Agreement on en `where?'
		7.5.2 Agreement on targets embedded under lek `from'
		7.5.3 Agreement on anep mayay `therefore'
	7.6 Conclusions
8 Case-shift on Megrelian adverbs
	Alexander Rostovtsev-Popiel
	8.1 Introduction
	8.2 The Megrelian language
	8.3 Case-shift in Megrelian
		8.3.1 The case system
		8.3.2 Verbs
		8.3.3 TAM-related case-shift
	8.4 Adverbs
		8.4.1 Invariable adverbs
		8.4.2 Adverbs marked for spatial case
		8.4.3 Adverbs sensitive to case-shift
	8.5 Investigating adverbial case-shift
		8.5.1 Existing treatments
		8.5.2 Towards an account of adverbial case-shift
		8.5.3 Case study
	8.6 Structural and typological comparisons
		8.6.1 Laz and Georgian
		8.6.2 Warlpiri
	8.7 Conclusions
References
Author Index
Language Index
Subject Index