"In this research monograph, Johannes Mursell discusses the syntactic impact of information-structural features on agreement. So far, the syntactic contribution of this type of feature has mostly been reduced to movement of topics or foci clause-initial position. Here, the author looks at a different phenomenon, syntactic agreement, and how this process can be dependent on information-structural properties. Based partly on original fieldwork from a typologically diverse set of languages, including Tagalog, Swahili, and Lavukaleve, it is argued that for most areas for which information-structural features have been discussed, it is possible to find cases where these features influence phi-feature agreement. The analysis is then extended to cases of Association with Focus, which does not involve phi-features but can still be accounted for with agreement of information-structural features. The book achieves two main goals: first it provides a uniform analysis for different constructions in unrelated languages. Second, it also gives a new argument that information-structural features should be treated as genuine syntactic features"--.

• The Syntax of Information-Structural Agreement
• Editorial page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Table of contents
• Acknowledgments
• List of symbols and abbreviations
• Chapter 1. Introduction
• Chapter 2. Theoretical background
  • 2.1 Introduction
  • 2.2 The general architecture
    • 2.2.1 Syntactic fundamentals
    • 2.2.2 Agreement
    • 2.2.3 Syntax without information structure
  • 2.3 Syntactic encoding of information structure
    • 2.3.1 The distribution of information-structural features
    • 2.3.2 Combining constituents with information-structural features
    • 2.3.3 Focus Projection
    • 2.3.4 The meaning of focus
  • 2.4 Information-structural projections in the periphery
    • 2.4.1 Information structure in the CP
    • 2.4.2 Information structure in the vP
    • 2.4.3 Different periphery equals different meaning
  • 2.5 Feature inheritance and Strong Uniformity
    • 2.5.1 Known phenomena
  • 2.6 Summary and conclusion
• Chapter 3. Long distance agreement
  • 3.1 Introduction
  • 3.2 LDA crosslinguistically
    • 3.2.1 Nakh-Dagestanian languages
    • 3.2.2 Algonquian languages
    • 3.2.3 LDA in Uyghur
  • 3.3 Previous analyses
    • 3.3.1 Polinsky & Potsdam (2001)
    • 3.3.2 Bjorkman & Zeijlstra (2019)
  • 3.4 LDA conditioned by information structure
  • 3.5 Conclusion
• Chapter 4. Object marking in Swahili
  • 4.1 Introduction
  • 4.2 Background
    • 4.2.1 General background
    • 4.2.2 Swahili
    • 4.2.3 Object marking in Bantu
  • 4.3 The trigger for OM
    • 4.3.1 Optional OM in Swahili
    • 4.3.2 Obligatory OM in Swahili
  • 4.4 Analysis
    • 4.4.1 OM in Swahili is not cliticization
    • 4.4.2 Agreement based on Givenness
    • 4.4.3 Interaction of OM with other processes
  • 4.5 Conclusion
• Chapter 5. Subject marking in Tagalog
  • 5.1 Introduction
  • 5.2 Tagalog background
  • 5.3 Previous accounts
    • 5.3.1 Case-based accounts
    • 5.3.2 Topic and focus
    • 5.3.3 Structural accounts
      • Subjects as complements in Malagasy
      • Rackowski (2002) and movement to the vP-edge
      • Specificity does not equal ang-marking
  • 5.4 Analysis
    • 5.4.1 Ang-phrase as given
    • 5.4.2 Subject agreement as determined by Givenness
  • 5.5 Predictions and consequences
  • 5.6 Conclusion
• Chapter 6. Focus particles in Lavukaleve
  • 6.1 Introduction
  • 6.2 Lavukaleve
  • 6.3 Narrow focus
  • 6.4 Wide focus
    • 6.4.1 The agreement suffix
    • 6.4.2 More data on wide focus constructions
  • 6.5 Analysis
    • 6.5.1 Narrow focus marking
    • 6.5.2 Wide focus marking
  • 6.6 Conclusion
• Chapter 7. Association with focus – general discussion
  • 7.1 Introduction
  • 7.2 Syntactic analyses of association with focus
  • 7.3 Alternative semantics
    • Kratzer (1991)
  • 7.4 Structured meaning
    • SM and Tanglewood
  • 7.5 Agreement-based association with focus
    • 7.5.1 Agreement based association with focus
    • 7.5.2 Split only: Quek & Hirsch (2017)
  • 7.6 Conclusion
• Chapter 8. Association with focus in German
  • 8.1 Introduction
  • 8.2 AwF in German – Büring & Hartmann (2001)
    • 8.2.1 The a-theory of Büring & Hartmann (2001)
    • 8.2.2 Arguments for adjunction to EVPs
    • 8.2.3 Problems of the a-analysis
  • 8.3 Two alternative accounts
    • 8.3.1 Bayer (1996)
    • 8.3.2 Sudhoff (2010)
  • 8.4 The criticism of Reis (2005)
  • 8.5 Reconstruction and Smeets & Wagner (2018)
  • 8.6 AwF in German based on agreement
  • 8.7 Adjunction of FPs in English
  • 8.8 Conclusion
• Chapter 9. Conclusion
  • 9.1 Summary and main findings
  • 9.2 Directions for future research
• References
• Index