Competition and variation in natural languages the case for case
This volume combines different perspectives on case-marking: (1) typological and descriptive approaches of various types and instances of case-marking in the languages of the world as well as comparison with languages that express similar types of relations without morphological case-marking; (2) fo...
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Amsterdam
Elsevier
2005, 2005
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Table of Contents:
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- the case for case. Some participants are more equal than others: Case and the composition of arguments in Kuuk Thaayorre. Head marking and dependent marking of grammatical relations in Yurakař. Case pattern splits, verb types, and construction competition. Limits to case a critical survey of the notion. Case as feature checking and the status of predicate initial languages. (L. deMena Travis). The case of Basque: an accusative analysis for an ergative system.
- Noun phrase resolution: the correlation between case and ambiguity. Changes in case marking in NP: From Old English to Middle English. The on-line resolution of subject-object ambiguities with and without case-marking in Dutch: evidence from event related brain potentials. Differential subject marking in Amharic. Differential case-marking in Hindi
- the case for case / Mengistu Amberber and Helen de Hoop
- Some participants are more equal than others : case and the composition of arguments in Kuuk Thaayorre / Alice Gaby
- Head marking and dependent marking of grammatical relations in Yurakaré / Rik van Gijn
- Case pattern splits, verb types and construction competition / Andrej L. Malchukov
- Limits to case
- a critical survey of the notion / Andrew Spencer and Ryo Otoguro
- Case as feature checking and the status of predicate initial languages / Lisa deMena Travis
- The case of Basque : an accusative analysis for an ergative system / Mario van de Visser
- Noun phrase resolution : the correlation between case and ambiguity / Peter de Swart
- Changes in case marking in NP : from Old English to Middle English / Cynthia L. Allen
- The on-line resolution of subject-object ambiguities with and without case-marking in Dutch : evidence from event-related brain potentials / Mon