Russian case morphology and the syntactic categories / / David Pesetsky

• Autore: Pesetsky David Michael
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : The MIT Press, , [2013]; ©2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (193 p.)
• Disciplina: 491.75
• Soggetto topico: Russian language - Case; Russian language - Morphology; Russian language - Syntax; Grammar, Comparative and general - Nominals
• Soggetto non controllato: LINGUISTICS & LANGUAGE/General
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Russian case morphology and the syntactic categories
• ISBN: 0-262-31450-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910453270903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Linguistic Inquiry Monographs