Russian case morphology and the syntactic categories /

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 o...

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Tác giả chính: Pesetsky, David Michael (Tác giả)
Định dạng: Licensed eBooks
Ngôn ngữ:Tiếng Anh
Được phát hành: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2013]
Loạt:Linguistic inquiry monographs ; 66.
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Mục lục:
  • 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. Nominative plural adjectives in paucal constructions
  • appendix 2. A defectivity puzzle : the numeral-classifier construction
  • appendix 3. A South Slavic argument by Horvath (2011) that "you are what you assign" holds of prepositions.