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Titolo: | Competition and variation in natural languages [[electronic resource] ] : the case for case / / edited by Mengistu Amberber, Helen de Hoop |
Pubblicazione: | Amsterdam ; ; San Diego, CA ; ; Oxford, : Elsevier, 2005 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (375 p.) |
Disciplina: | 415.5 |
Soggetto topico: | Grammar, Comparative and general - Case |
Cognitive science | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
Altri autori: | HoopHelen de <1964-> AmberberMengistu <1961-> |
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 |
Titolo autorizzato: | Competition and variation in natural languages |
ISBN: | 1-280-63293-3 |
9786610632930 | |
0-08-045977-3 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910458463503321 |
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