Product details:
| ISBN13: | 9780198865926 |
| ISBN10: | 0198865929 |
| Binding: | Hardback |
| No. of pages: | 640 pages |
| Size: | 240x163x38 mm |
| Weight: | 1114 g |
| Language: | English |
| 739 |
Category:
The Place of Case in Grammar
Series:
Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics;
87;
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Date of Publication: 16 July 2024
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Short description:
This book deals with the category of case and where to place it in grammar. Chapters explore a range of issues relating to the division between syntactic Case and morphological case, investigating the relevant phenomena, and drawing on data from a variety of typologically diverse languages.
Long description:
This book deals with the category of case and where to place it in grammar. The crux of the debate lies in how the morphological expression of grammatical function should relate to formal syntax. In the generative tradition, this issue was addressed by the influential proposal that abstract syntactic Case should be dissociated from the morphological expression of case. The chapters in this book deal with a number of key issues in the ongoing debates that have emerged from this proposal. The first part discusses the modes that we need for structural case assignment, and how Case would relate to a theory of parameters. In the second part, contributors explore the division of labour between structural and inherent case, synchronically and diachronically, while the third part investigates individual cases and how they can illuminate case theory. The chapters discuss a wide range of phenomena, including differential object marking (DOM), global case splits, prepositional genitives and other prepositional phrases, nominative infinitival subjects, nominalizations of deponent verbs, and three-place predicates. They also draw on data from a variety of languages and language families, such as Hindi, Lithuanian, Kashmiri, Kinande, Greek, Hiberno-English, Romance, and Sahapatin.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: The place of case in grammar
Part I. Theoretical issues: Parametrization, dependent case, and Agree
Dependent case and the sometimes independence of ergativity and Differential Object Marking
On theories of Case and Universal Grammar
Taxonomies of case and ontologies of case
Challenges for dependent case
Differential Object Marking and ergative as structural oblique cases in an Agree framework
Case and the theory of parameters
Part II. The distinction between structural and inherent case: Synchronic and diachronic issues
A synthesis for the structural/inherent case distinction and its comparative and diachronic consequences
Can case be semantic?
The rise of dative subjects: Relative prominence in event structure
The emergence of prepositional genitives in Greek and its diachronic implications
. Case, function, and Prepositional Phrase structure in Ancient Greek
The R-pronoun and postposition waar-mee in Dutch
Part III. Specific cases: Nominatives, genitives, datives, and partitives
Arguments from case for a derivational theory of finiteness: Nominative memories of a past life
Reconsidering nominative case in English: 'We bade it a tedious returning'
A unified theory of Case form and Case meaning: Genitives and parametric syntax
Greek deponent verbs and their nominalizations: Genitive case as unmarked case in the nominal domain
Genitives and datives with Ancient Greek three-place predicates
Partitives, Case, and licensing in Kinande
Part I. Theoretical issues: Parametrization, dependent case, and Agree
Dependent case and the sometimes independence of ergativity and Differential Object Marking
On theories of Case and Universal Grammar
Taxonomies of case and ontologies of case
Challenges for dependent case
Differential Object Marking and ergative as structural oblique cases in an Agree framework
Case and the theory of parameters
Part II. The distinction between structural and inherent case: Synchronic and diachronic issues
A synthesis for the structural/inherent case distinction and its comparative and diachronic consequences
Can case be semantic?
The rise of dative subjects: Relative prominence in event structure
The emergence of prepositional genitives in Greek and its diachronic implications
. Case, function, and Prepositional Phrase structure in Ancient Greek
The R-pronoun and postposition waar-mee in Dutch
Part III. Specific cases: Nominatives, genitives, datives, and partitives
Arguments from case for a derivational theory of finiteness: Nominative memories of a past life
Reconsidering nominative case in English: 'We bade it a tedious returning'
A unified theory of Case form and Case meaning: Genitives and parametric syntax
Greek deponent verbs and their nominalizations: Genitive case as unmarked case in the nominal domain
Genitives and datives with Ancient Greek three-place predicates
Partitives, Case, and licensing in Kinande
