Case and Agreement from Fringe to Core: A Minimalist Approach

This book develops a unified theory of non-canonical case and agreement patterns that have remained elusive so far. Drawing from a wide range of typologically non-related languages, it sets forth the claim that the phenomena under discussion involve abstract deletion operations which interact with other grammatical operations in intricate but highly systematic ways. This interplay is shown to give rise to seemingly non-related surface phenomena, thus integrating these phenomena within a more general framework of argument encoding.

Review:

I consider Stefan Keine's book an important (truly groundbreaking) contribution to the generative study of case and agreement, as well as to the more general problems pertaining to the architecture and mechanisms of grammar. It offers a highly appealing, technically simple, and conceptually uniform account of a number of apparently disparate phenomena from languages as diverse as Icelandic, Hindi, and Nez Perce, many of which have been poorly understood before. Peter M. Arkadiev in: Linguist List 22.2151