1st Edition

A Situated Theory of Agreement

By Michael Barlow Copyright 1992
344 Pages
by Routledge

344 Pages
by Routledge

344 Pages
by Routledge

Typical cases of agreement are easy to identify, but where the boundaries of agreement lie depend on what aspects of the agreement relation are considered to be defining properties. It is a short step from viewing agreement in the traditional way, as a matching of features, to defining agreement as any relation that ensures consistency of information in two separate structures. This book takes as... Read more

1. Introduction  2. Agreement and Partial Information  3. Agreement and Classification  4. Agreement and Information Structures  5. A Discourse-Linking Theory of Agreement  6. Agreement in Arabic and English  7. Agreement and Information

Biography

Michael Barlow