Overview
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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- ISBN-13: 9781107690097
- ISBN-10: 1107690099
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Publish Date: February 2015
- Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 0.8 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
- Page Count: 354
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