Case : its principles and its parameters

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Case : its principles and its parameters

Mark C. Baker

(Cambridge studies in linguistics, 146)

Cambridge University Press, 2015

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-316) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

In Case, Mark Baker develops a unified theory of how the morphological case marking of noun phrases is determined by syntactic structure. Designed to work well for languages of all alignment types - accusative, ergative, tripartite, marked nominative, or marked absolutive - this theory has been developed and tested against unrelated languages of each type, and more than twenty non-Indo-European languages are considered in depth. While affirming that case can be assigned to noun phrases by function words under agreement, the theory also develops in detail a second mode of case assignment: so-called dependent case. Suitable for academic researchers and students, the book employs formal-generative concepts yet remains clear and accessible for a general linguistics readership.

Table of Contents

  • 1. The issue of structural case
  • 2. The variable relationship of case and agreement
  • 3. C-command factors in case assignment
  • 4. Domains of dependent case assignment
  • 5. Categories involved in case interactions
  • 6. On the timing of case assignment
  • 7. Conclusion: putting together the big picture.

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  • NCID
    BB18145026
  • ISBN
    • 9781107690097
    • 9781107055223
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Cambridge
  • Pages/Volumes
    xviii, 336 p.
  • Size
    23 cm
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