Russian case morphology and the syntactic categories / David Pesetsky.
Material type: TextSeries: Linguistic inquiry monographs ; 66Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : MIT Press, [2013]Copyright date: 2013Description: 1 online resource (192 pages) : illustrationsContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780262314503Subject(s): Russian language -- Case | Russian language -- Morphology | Russian language -- Syntax | Grammar, Comparative and general -- NominalsGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Russian case morphology and the syntactic categories.DDC classification: 491.75 LOC classification: PG2221 | .P47 2013Online resources: Click to ViewIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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