Case : Its Principles and its Parameters Paperback / softback
by Mark (Rutgers University, New Jersey) Baker
Part of the Cambridge Studies in Linguistics series
Paperback / softback
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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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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:354 pages
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:19/02/2015
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- ISBN:9781107690097
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:354 pages
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:19/02/2015
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- ISBN:9781107690097
