Pesetsky, David Michael.

Russian case morphology and the syntactic categories / David Pesetsky. - 1 online resource (192 pages) : illustrations. - Linguistic inquiry monographs ; 66 .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction to the puzzles -- Do we need the traditional case categories? -- Russian as a case-stacking language -- Argument 1 for the core proposal : NGEN, DNOM and POBL -- An independent argument from gender agreement for the initial low position of paucals -- Numerals and other quantifiers -- VACC and the morphosyntax of direct objects -- Argument 2 for the core proposal : "You are what you assign" -- Feature assignment and the notion "prototype" -- Conclusions -- Nominative plural adjectives in paucal constructions -- A defectivity puzzle : the numeral-classifier construction -- A South Slavic argument by Horvath (2011) that "you are what you assign" holds of prepositions. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. appendix 1. appendix 2. appendix 3.

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Russian language--Case.
Russian language--Morphology.
Russian language--Syntax.
Grammar, Comparative and general--Nominals.


Electronic books.

PG2221 / .P47 2013

491.75