Restrictiveness in Case Theory (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics)

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EAN/UPC/ISBN Code 9780521026550

Author

Pages 344

Year of production 2006

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.