Case: Its Principles and Its Parameters

by Mark Baker and Mark Baker

Book Overview

In Case, Mark Baker develops a unified theory of how the morphological case marking of noun phrases is determined by syntactic structure. Designed to work well for languages of all alignment types - accusative, ergative, tripartite, marked nominative, or marked absolutive - this theory has been developed and tested against unrelated languages of each type, and more than twenty non-Indo-European languages are considered in depth. While affirming that...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107055229
• ISBN13: 9781107055223
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 356 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"