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Case

Case

Paperback

Series: Cambridge Studies in Linguistics, Book 146

Grammar & StyleLinguistics

ISBN10: 1107690099
ISBN13: 9781107690097
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Feb 19 2015
Pages: 354
Weight: 1.30
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
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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