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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790707903321

Autore

Pesetsky David Michael

Titolo

Russian case morphology and the syntactic categories / / David Pesetsky

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : The MIT Press, , [2013]

©2013

ISBN

0-262-31450-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (193 p.)

Collana

Linguistic inquiry monographs ; ; 66

Disciplina

491.75

Soggetti

Russian language - Case

Russian language - Morphology

Russian language - Syntax

Grammar, Comparative and general - Nominals

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

Contents; Series Foreword; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction to the Puzzles; 2 Do We Need the Traditional Case Categories?; 3 Russian as a Case-Stacking Language; 4 Argument 1 for the Core Proposal: Ngen, Dnom, and Pobl; 5 An Independent Argument from Gender Agreement for the Initial Low Position of Paucals; 6 Numerals and Other Quantifiers; 7 Vacc and the Morphosyntax of Direct Objects; 8 Argument 2 for the Core Proposal: "You Are What You Assign"; 9 Feature Assignment and the Notion "Prototype"; 10 Conclusions; Appendix 1; Appendix 2; Appendix 3; Notes; References; Author Index; Subject Index

Linguistic Inquiry Monographs

Sommario/riassunto

In this work, David Pesetsky argues that the peculiarities of Russian nominal phrases provide significant clues concerning the syntactic side of morphological case. Pesetsky argues against the traditional view that case categories such as nominative or genitive have a special status in the grammar of human languages.