Competition and variation in natural languages : 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
• 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.: 9910818464403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Perspectives on cognitive science.