Case

By Mark Baker and Mark Baker

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107690099
• ISBN13: 9781107690097
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 354 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"