Case : Its Principles and its Parameters
by
Mark Baker
Book Details
Format
Hardback
Book Series
Cambridge Studies in Linguistics
ISBN-10
1107055229
ISBN-13
9781107055223
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Feb 19th, 2015
Print length
356 Pages
Weight
664 grams
Dimensions
16.10 x 23.60 x 2.60 cms
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In Case, Mark Baker presents a unified theory of morphological case, one of the most important ways that languages indicate a noun phrase's function in a sentence. It includes the first full-length study of dependent case assignment. The ideas are richly illustrated with data from more than twenty unrelated languages.
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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