| Title:
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CASE
ITS PRINCIPLES AND ITS PARAMETERS |
| By: |
Mark Baker |
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| ISBN 10: |
1107690099 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781107690097 |
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| Publisher: |
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
31 January, 2015 |
| Series: |
Cambridge Studies in Linguistics 146 |
| Pages: |
354 |
| Description: |
This book develops a unified theory of structural case and applies it to data from more than twenty unrelated languages. |
| Synopsis: |
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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UK |
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Cambridge University Press |
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