Russian case morphology and the syntactic categories / David Pesetsky.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pesetsky, David Michael, author.

Series:

Linguistic Inquiry Monographs

Linguistic inquiry monographs ; 66

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Russian language--Case.

Russian language.

Russian language--Morphology.

Russian language--Syntax.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Nominals.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (193 p.)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2013]

Summary:

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 of human languages.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

0-262-31450-9

OCLC:

868068053