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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784540503321

Titolo

Competition and variation in natural languages [[electronic resource] ] : the case for case / / edited by Mengistu Amberber, Helen de Hoop

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; San Diego, CA ; ; Oxford, : Elsevier, 2005

ISBN

1-280-63293-3

9786610632930

0-08-045977-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (375 p.)

Collana

Perspectives on cognitive science

Altri autori (Persone)

HoopHelen de <1964->

AmberberMengistu <1961->

Disciplina

415.5

Soggetti

Grammar, Comparative and general - Case

Cognitive science

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

front cover; copyright; table of  contents; front matter; Volume Editors; List of Contributors; Preface; body; Competition and Variation in Natural Languages: The Case for Case; Some Participants are More Equal than Others: Case and the Composition of Arguments in Kuuk Thaayorre; Head Marking and Dependent Marking of Grammatical Relations in Yurakaré; Case Pattern Splits, Verb Types and Construction Competition; Limits to Case - A Critical Survey of the Notion; Case as Feature Checking and the Status of Predicate Initial Languages

The Case of Basque: An Accusative Analysis for an Ergative System Noun Phrase Resolution: The Correlation between Case and Ambiguity; Changes in Case Marking in NP: From Old English to Middle English; The On-line Resolution of Subject-Object Ambiguities with and without Case-Marking in Dutch: Evidence from Event-Related Brain Potentials; Differential Subject Marking in Amharic; Differential Case-Marking in Hindi; back matter; Author Index; index; Language Index

Sommario/riassunto

This volume combines different perspectives on case-marking: (1) typological and descriptive approaches of various types and instances of case-marking in the languages of the world as well as comparison with languages that express similar types of relations without



morphological case-marking; (2) formal analyses in different theoretical frameworks of the syntactic, semantic, and morphological properties of case-marking; (3) a historical approach of case-marking; (4) a psycholinguistic approach of case-marking.  Although there are a number of publications on case related issues, there