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Kongruencija, padeži i A-pomjeranje u bosanskome jeziku
Agreement, Case and A-Movement in Bosnian Language

Author(s): Emina Bičević
Subject(s): Syntax, South Slavic Languages
Published by: Bosansko filološko društvo
Keywords: case; nominative; accusative; feature valuation; agreement;

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this paper is to apply Chomsky’s theory of agreement and case assignment to Bosnian language. This theory argues that agreement involves a relationship between a probe and a goal. Some features enter the derivation already valued (the tense feature on T and the φ-features on nominal expressions), whereas others (the φ-features on T and the case feature on nominals) are initially unvalued and are assigned value in the case of derivation via a Feature Valuation operation.

  • Issue Year: 2014
  • Issue No: 12
  • Page Range: 9-19
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Bosnian