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.
Produkteigenschaften
- Artikelnummer: 9781107055223
- Medium: Buch
- ISBN: 978-1-107-05522-3
- Verlag: Cambridge University Press
- Erscheinungstermin: 16.06.2015
- Sprache(n): Englisch
- Auflage: Erscheinungsjahr 2015
- Serie: Cambridge Studies in Linguistics
- Produktform: Gebunden, HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
- Gewicht: 668 g
- Seiten: 354
- Format (B x H x T): 157 x 235 x 24 mm
- Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt