| Case: Its Principles and Its Parameters Contributor(s): Baker, Mark (Author) |
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ISBN: 1107690099 ISBN-13: 9781107690097 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $45.59 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - Syntax - Language Arts & Disciplines | Grammar & Punctuation |
| Dewey: 415 |
| LCCN: 2015295011 |
| Series: Cambridge Studies in Linguistics |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6" W x 8.9" (1.30 lbs) 354 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In Case, Mark Baker develops a unified theory of how the morphological case marking of noun phrases is determined by syntactic structure. Designed to work well for languages of all alignment types - accusative, ergative, tripartite, marked nominative, or marked absolutive - this theory has been developed and tested against unrelated languages of each type, and more than twenty non-Indo-European languages are considered in depth. While affirming that case can be assigned to noun phrases by function words under agreement, the theory also develops in detail a second mode of case assignment: so-called dependent case. Suitable for academic researchers and students, the book employs formal-generative concepts yet remains clear and accessible for a general linguistics readership. |
Contributor Bio(s): Baker, Mark: - Mark Baker is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Linguistics at Rutgers University. |