TY - BOOK AU - Preminger,Omer TI - Agreement and its failures T2 - Linguistic inquiry monographs SN - 9780262323192 AV - P299.A35 U1 - 415 23 PY - 2014///] CY - Cambridge, MA PB - The MIT Press KW - Grammar, Comparative and general KW - Agreement KW - Case KW - Syntax KW - Accord (Linguistique) KW - Cas (Linguistique) KW - Syntaxe KW - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES KW - Grammar & Punctuation KW - bisacsh KW - Linguistics KW - Phonetics & Phonology KW - fast KW - LINGUISTICS & LANGUAGE/General KW - Electronic book KW - Electronic books KW - lcgft N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-280) and index N2 - This monograph shows that the typically obligatory nature of predicate-argument agreement in phi-features (phi-agreement) cannot be captured through 'derivational time-bombs' - elements of the initial representation that cannot be part of a well-formed, end-of-the-derivation structure, and which are eliminated by the application of phi-agreement itself. This includes, but is not limited to, the 'uninterpretable features' of Chomsky 2000, 2001. Instead, it requires recourse to an operation - one whose invocation is obligatory, but whose successful culmination is not enforced by the grammar UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=848202 ER -