Russian Case Morphology and the Syntactic Categories.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (192 pages)
- Linguistic Inquiry Monographs ; v.66 .
- Linguistic Inquiry Monographs .
Intro -- 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.
A proposal for a radical new view of case morphology, supported by a detailed investigation of some of the thorniest topics in Russian grammar.
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Russian language -- Case. Russian language -- Morphology. Russian language -- Syntax. Grammar, Comparative and general -- Nominals.