| Autore |
Quinn Heidi
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| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa |
Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub., c2005
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| Descrizione fisica |
1 online resource (423 p.)
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| Disciplina |
425/.55
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| Collana |
Linguistik aktuell =Linguistics today
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| Soggetto topico |
English language - Pronoun
English language - Case
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| ISBN |
1-282-15648-9
9786612156489
90-272-9419-4
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| Formato |
Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione |
eng
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| Nota di contenuto |
The Distribution of Pronoun Case Forms in English -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- dedication -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- KEY TO ABBREVIATIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. THE HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH CASE SYSTEM -- 1.0 Introduction -- 1.1 Morphological case in Old English -- 1.2 Morphological case in Middle English (ME) -- 1.3 Lexical and structural case marking in the history of English -- 1.4 Morphological changes in the pronominal paradigm during the Early Modern English period -- 2. FORMAL APPROACHES TO CASE AND THE THREE CASE CONSTRAINTS -- 2.0 Introduction -- 2.1 Case and argument structure -- 2.2 Case and structural position -- 2.3 Argument Case, Positional Case and (Positional) Default Case -- 2.4 A constraint-based approach to agreement -- 3. CASE AND THE WEAK/STRONG DISTINCTION IN THE ENGLISH PRONOUN SYSTEM -- 3.0 Introduction -- 3.1 Strong and deficient pronouns in languages other than English -- 3.2 The syntactic properties of constructions with pronoun case variation -- 3.3 The prosodic properties of pronouns that exhibit case variation -- 3.4 Summary of differences between weak and strong pronouns -- 4. THE EMPIRICAL SURVEY -- 4.0 Introduction -- 4.1 Constructions and pronoun combinations tested -- 4.2 Task types -- 4.3 Fillers -- 4.4 The contents of the five questionnaires -- 4.5 The sample -- 4.6 Data collection -- 5. THE SURVEY RESULTS -- 5.0 Introduction -- 5.1 Pronoun case in coordinates -- 5.2 Pronoun-NP constructions -- 5.3 Pronoun case in it-clefts -- 5.4 Pronoun case in than-comparatives -- 5.5 Summary of the most important case trends -- 6. RELATIVE POSITIONAL CODING AND THE INVARIANT STRONG FORM CONSTRAINTS -- 6.0 Introduction -- 6.1 The limitations of a purely case-based analysis -- 6.2 Relative Positional Coding -- 6.3 The Invariant Strong Form constraints.
6.4 The interaction of case and non-case constraints -- 7. MODELLING THE INTERACTION OF THE CONSTRAINTS -- 7.0 Introduction -- 7.1 Optimality Theory (OT) -- 7.2 An alternative constraint-weighting approach -- 7.3 Summary -- 8. THE DISTRIBUTION OF PERSONAL PRONOUN FORMS IN OTHER STRONG PRONOUN CONTEXTS -- 8.0 Introduction -- 8.1 Topicalised pronouns -- 8.2 Left-dislocated pronouns -- 8.3 Right-dislocated pronouns -- 8.4 Independent pronouns -- 8.5 Pronoun case after be -- 8.6 Pronoun case in V-ing constructions -- 8.7 Pronoun case in to-infinitives -- 8.8 Pronoun case in small clauses -- 8.9 Pronoun case in gapping constructions -- 8.10 Pronoun case in bare argument ellipsis -- 8.11 Pronouns following but, save, except -- 8.12 Pronouns following not -- 8.13 Pronoun case after only -- 8.14 The case of modified pronouns -- 8.15 Summary and conclusions -- 9. THE DISTRIBUTION OF WH-PRONOUN FORMS IN MODERN ENGLISH -- 9.0 Introduction -- 9.1 wh-pronouns in matrix questions -- 9.2 The case of subject pronouns after fronted auxiliaries -- 9.3 wh-pronouns in echo questions -- 9.4 wh-pronouns in embedded questions -- 9.5 wh-pronouns in sluicing constructions -- 9.6 wh-pronouns in free relatives -- 9.7 wh-pronouns in headed relatives -- 9.8 Summary and conclusions -- 10. SPECULATIONS AND CONCLUSIONS -- 10.0 Introduction -- 10.1 Morphological and positional licensing in the history of English -- 10.2 The rise of Positional Case -- 10.3 The divergence of the weak and strong pronoun series in English -- REFERENCES -- Primary sources of OE and ME examples taken from secondary sources -- NAME INDEX -- SUBJECT INDEX -- the series Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today.
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The distribution of pronoun case forms in English [[electronic resource] /] / Heidi Quinn
