Case: Its Principles and Its Parameters (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781107690097)

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.

Author: Mark Baker
ISBN-10: 1107690099
ISBN-13: 9781107690097
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 02/23/2015
Pages: 354
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.80d