Case : its principles and its parameters
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Case : its principles and its parameters
(Cambridge studies in linguistics, 146)
Cambridge University Press, 2015
- : pbk
- : hardback
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Note
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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