03553nam 2200637Ia 450 991078454050332120200520144314.01-280-63293-397866106329300-08-045977-3(CKB)1000000000365238(EBL)269699(OCoLC)475998827(SSID)ssj0000126499(PQKBManifestationID)11144039(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000126499(PQKBWorkID)10047416(PQKB)10009523(Au-PeEL)EBL269699(CaPaEBR)ebr10137953(CaONFJC)MIL63293(OCoLC)162130344(MiAaPQ)EBC269699(EXLCZ)99100000000036523820050428d2005 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrCompetition and variation in natural languages[electronic resource] the case for case /edited by Mengistu Amberber, Helen de Hoop1st ed.Amsterdam ;San Diego, CA ;Oxford Elsevier20051 online resource (375 p.)Perspectives on cognitive scienceDescription based upon print version of record.0-08-044651-5 Includes bibliographical references and indexes.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 LanguagesThe 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 IndexThis 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, therePerspectives on cognitive science.Grammar, Comparative and generalCaseCognitive scienceGrammar, Comparative and generalCase.Cognitive science.415.5Hoop Helen de1964-879091Amberber Mengistu1961-1482753MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910784540503321Competition and variation in natural languages3772529UNINA