Competition and Variation in Natural Languages (eBook)

The Case for Case

Mengistu Amberber, Helen de Hoop (Herausgeber)

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2005 | 1. Auflage
374 Seiten
Elsevier Science (Verlag)
978-0-08-045977-6 (ISBN)

Infos

This volume combines different perspectives on case-marking: (1) typological and descriptive approaches of various types and instances of case-marking in the languages of the world as well as comparison with languages that express similar types of relations without morphological case-marking, (2) formal analyses in different theoretical frameworks of the syntactic, semantic, and morphological properties of case-marking, (3) a historical approach of case-marking, (4) a psycholinguistic approach of case-marking.

Although there are a number of publications on case related issues, there is no volume such as the present one, which exclusively looks at case marking, competition and variation from a cross-linguistic perspective and within the context of different contemporary theoretical approaches to the study of language.

In addition to chapters with broad conceptual orientation, the volume offers detailed empirical studies of case in a number of diverse languages including: Amharic, Basque, Dutch, Hindi, Japanese, Kuuk Thaayorre, Malagasy and Yurakar?.

The volume will be of interest to researchers and advanced students in the cognitive sciences, general linguistics, typology, historical linguistics, formal linguistics, and psycholinguistics. The book will interest scholars working within the context of formal syntactic and semantic theories as it provides insight into the properties of case from a cross-linguistic perspective. The book also will be of interest to cognitive scientists interested in the relationship between meaning and grammar, in particular, and the human mind's capacity in the mapping of meaning onto grammar, in general.

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This volume combines different perspectives on case-marking: (1) typological and descriptive approaches of various types and instances of case-marking in the languages of the world as well as comparison with languages that express similar types of relations without morphological case-marking; (2) formal analyses in different theoretical frameworks of the syntactic, semantic, and morphological properties of case-marking; (3) a historical approach of case-marking; (4) a psycholinguistic approach of case-marking. Although there are a number of publications on case related issues, there is no volume such as the present one, which exclusively looks at case marking, competition and variation from a cross-linguistic perspective and within the context of different contemporary theoretical approaches to the study of language. In addition to chapters with broad conceptual orientation, the volume offers detailed empirical studies of case in a number of diverse languages including: Amharic, Basque, Dutch, Hindi, Japanese, Kuuk Thaayorre, Malagasy and Yurakare.The volume will be of interest to researchers and advanced students in the cognitive sciences, general linguistics, typology, historical linguistics, formal linguistics, and psycholinguistics. The book will interest scholars working within the context of formal syntactic and semantic theories as it provides insight into the properties of case from a cross-linguistic perspective. The book also will be of interest to cognitive scientists interested in the relationship between meaning and grammar, in particular, and the human mind's capacity in the mapping of meaning onto grammar, in general.

Inhalt

front cover 1
copyright 5
Contents 6
Volume Editors 8
List of Contributors 10
Preface 12
1Competition and Variation in Natural Languages: The Case for Case 14
2Some Participants are More Equal than Others: Case and the Composition of Arguments in Kuuk Thaayorre 22
3Head Marking and Dependent Marking of Grammatical Relations in Yurakaré 54
4Case Pattern Splits, Verb Types and Construction Competition 86
5Limits to Case — A Critical Survey of the Notion 132
6Case as Feature Checking and the Status of Predicate Initial Languages 160
7The Case of Basque: An Accusative Analysis for an Ergative System 192
8Noun Phrase Resolution: The Correlation between Case and Ambiguity 218
9Changes in Case Marking in NP: From Old English to Middle English 236
10The On-line Resolution of Subject–Object Ambiguities with and without Case-Marking in Dutch: Evidence from Event-Related Brain Potentials 264
11Differential Subject Marking in Amharic 308
12Differential Case-Marking in Hindi 334
Author Index 360
Subject Index 366
Language Index 372

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.6.2005
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Allgemeine Psychologie
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• ISBN-10: 0-08-045977-3 / 0080459773
• ISBN-13: 978-0-08-045977-6 / 9780080459776