Bücher von Greville G. (University of Surrey) Corbett

A unique examination of a central concept of linguistic analysis: features, such as Number, Person and Tense. Corbett brings together two issues: how features vary between languages and how they work. The book has wide relevance across the discipline.

Agreement in language relates to the correspondence between words in a sentence, in terms of gender, case, person, or number. This textbook offers an insight into how agreement works, and how it varies cross-linguistically. It will be essential reading for all those studying the structure and mechanisms of natural languages.

This book, first published in 2000, provides an introduction to the grammatical category of number, surveying many languages to reveal that the world's linguistic resources are richer than even many linguists realise. Aimed at linguistic students, it is the first book-length treatment of this topic and can serve as an entry to linguistic typology.