Case and Grammatical Relations: Studies in Honor of Bernard Comrie

by Bernard Comrie

The papers in this volume can be grouped into two broad, overlapping classes: those dealing primarily with case and those dealing primarily with grammatical relations. With regard to case, topics include descriptions of the case systems of two Caucasian languages, the problems of determining how many cases Russian has and whether Hungarian has a case system at all, the issue of case-combining, the retention of the dative in Swedish dialects, and genitive...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9027229945
• ISBN13: 9789027229946
• Release Date: December 2008
• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Length: 290 Pages