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7 - Features, Case and Agreement

from Part I - Configuration and Hierarchy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 October 2025

Ian Roberts
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The goal of this chapter is to develop a theory of Formal Features that will capture and unify many of the generalisations we have arrived at in previous chapters and, more specifically, to develop a theory of Case, agreement and movement, showing how these three notions are intertwined. The core notion is the Agree relation.

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Continuing Syntax
Hierarchy and Locality
, pp. 139 - 156
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2025

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