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Agreement.

Corbett, Greville Greville is a first name and a surname.

There is a place that has the name Gréville in France:
  • Gréville-Hague, in the Manche département
Gréville is also a French surname:

Individuals with the last name Gréville are:
 G.

Cambridge Cambridge, city, Canada
Cambridge (kām`brĭj), city (1991 pop. 92,772), S Ont., Canada, on the Grand River, NW of Hamilton. It was formed in 1973 with the amalgamation of Galt, Hespeler, and Preston, all founded in the early 19th cent.
 U. Pr.

2006

328 pages

$90.00

Hardcover

Cambridge textbooks in linguistics linguistics, scientific study of language, covering the structure (morphology and syntax; see grammar), sounds (phonology), and meaning (semantics), as well as the history of the relations of languages to each other and the cultural place of language in human  

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Corbett (linguistics, U. of Surrey Surrey, county (1991 pop. 997,000), 653 sq mi (1,691 sq km), SE England. The county seat is Guildford. The North Downs cross the county from east to west. To the north the land slopes gently downward to the Thames, into which flow the Wey and the Mole, Surrey's , UK) presents a text for upper- level undergraduate and graduate students, theoreticians, and researchers concerned with the structure and mechanisms of natural languages. The text opens with an introductory overview of the linguistic phenomenon of agreement and the major components used to describe agreement. Subsequent chapters explore each of the components--the diversity of controllers, targets, and domains; the morphology morphology

In biology, the study of the size, shape, and structure of organisms in relation to some principle or generalization. Whereas anatomy describes the structure of organisms, morphology explains the shapes and arrangement of parts of organisms in terms of such
 of agreement; agreement features; mismatches in feature values; and conditions--followed by discussion of constructions in which there is a choice of agreements, the issue of resolution, and other perspectives on agreement. The author utilizes data from a wide range of languages, with radically different agreement systems, to demonstrate agreement in a variety of constructions.

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