Agreement, Pronominal Clitics and Negation in Tamazight Berber: A Unified Analysis

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This book presents a study of various important aspects of Tamazight Berber syntax within the generative tradition.  Work on Berber linguistics from a generative perspective remains in many ways uncharted territory.  There has been hardly any published research on this language and its different dialects, especially in English — this book fills some of these gaps and lays down the foundations for further research.<br><br>Ouali looks at three seemingly disparate ranges of syntactic phenomena, namely Subject-verb agreement, Clitic-doubling and Negative Concord.  These phenomena have received different analytical treatments, but Ouali proposes that they are all forms of agreement derived under the same Chomskian ‘Agree’ mechanism.<br><br>The book addresses a fundamental question in the ongoing debate in recent Minimalism with regard to how subject-verb agreement is obtained and proposes a new analysis of the so-called Anti-Agreement Effect.  It will be of interest to all syntacticians and to researchers in Afroasiatic languages.

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