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Case: Its Principles and its Parameters

By Mark Baker

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2015
ISBN
1107055229, 9781107055223
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2218493 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Studies in Linguistics
Pages
356\355
Scanned
yes
Time added
2016-08-28 21:19:59
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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.

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