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.
| ISBN: | 9781107055223 |
| Publication date: | 19th February 2015 |
| Author: | Mark Rutgers University, New Jersey Baker |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 356 pages |
| Series: | Cambridge Studies in Linguistics |
| Genres: |
Grammar, syntax and morphology |
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.
Case features in the following genres: Grammar, syntax and morphology
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Case was written by Mark Rutgers University, New Jersey Baker and published by Cambridge University Press
Case has 356 pages
Yes it is part of Cambridge Studies in Linguistics series
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