Restrictiveness in Case Theory

ISBN-13: 9780521026550 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 344 str.

Henry Smith; S. R. Anderson; J. Bresnan

Opis

Henry Smith develops a theory of syntactic case and examines its synchronic and diachronic consequences. Within a unification-based framework, he draws out pervasive patterns in the relationship between morphosyntax "linking" and grammatical function. Beginning with a detailed study of dative substitution in Icelandic, the author moves on to examine a wide array of synchronic and diachronic data and to construct a typology of case.