Arguments and Agreement

Peter Ackema is Lecturer in Linguistics at the University of Edinburgh. He is the author of Issues in Morphosyntax (John Benjamins, 1999) and co-author with Ad Neeleman of Beyond Morphology (OUP, 2004).Patrick Brandt is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Cognitive Linguistics at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University.Maaike Schoorlemmer is Assistant Professor at the Utrecht Institute of Linguistics.Fred Weerman is Professor of Dutch Linguistics at the University of Amsterdam. He is the author of The V2 Conspiracy (Foris, 1989) and co-author with Ad Neeleman of Flexible Syntax (Kluwer, 1999).

• 1. The Role of Agreement in the Expression of Arguments ; PART I THE AGREEMENT - PRO DROP CONNECTION ; 2. Economy, Agreement, and the Representation of Null Arguments ; 3. Deriving the Diference Between Full and Partial Pro Drop ; 4. Agreement, Pro, and Imperatives ; PART II MICROVARIATION I PRO DROP LANGUAGES ; 5. Uniform and Non-Uniform Aspects of Pro-Drop Languages ; 6. Assymetrical Pro Drop ; PART III INTERPRETING EMPTY ARGUMENTS ; 7. Agreement Phenomena in Sign Language of the Netherlands ; 8. "Arbitrary" Pro and the Theory of Pro Drop ; PART IV NONCONFIGURATIONALITY ; 9. The Pronominal Argument Parameter ; 10. On Zero Agreement and Polysynthesis

I would highly recommend this book to anyone interested in the state of the art in Minimalist theorizing on agreement and null subjects.