عنوان

Restrictiveness in case theory /

(Number (ISBN

9780511519970 (ebook)

Erroneous ISBN

9780521026550 (paperback)

Erroneous ISBN

9780521462877 (hardback)

Number

b503016

Title Proper

Restrictiveness in case theory /

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

Henry Smith.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Cambridge :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Cambridge University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

1996.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (xi, 328 pages) :

Other Physical Details

digital, PDF file(s)

Series Title

Cambridge studies in linguistics ;

Volume Designation

78.

Text of Note

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)

Text of Note

1. Introduction -- 2. Argument case and case alternations -- 3. A typology of case systems -- 4. Linker interactions -- 5. Icelandic -- 6. Changes in linking -- 7. Case semi-preservation -- 8. Conclusions.

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Text of Note

Henry Smith develops a theory of syntactic case and examines its synchronic and diachronic consequences. Within a unification-based framework, the book draws out pervasive patterns in the relationship between morphosyntax ('linking') and grammatical function. The theory proposed consists of three ordered constraints on the association of NPs and arguments, based on the central notion of 'restrictiveness'. Beginning with a detailed study of dative substitution in Icelandic, the author moves on to examine a wide array of synchronic and diachronic data and to construct a typology of case. Theoretically innovative and sophisticated, and descriptively wide-ranging, this book will appeal to all those interested in the cross-linguistic marking of case and the ways in which case systems may change over time.

Grammar, Comparative and general-- Case.

Class number

Book number

Smith, Henry E.

Date of Transaction

20151005020622.0

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Electronic name

[Book]

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