Double Case: Agreement by Suffixaufnahme

by Frans Plank

Book Overview

Suffixaufnahme is an unusual pattern of multiple case marking due to agreement: a nominal that is already case-marked for its own adnominal function in addition copies the case of the nominal to which it is to be related. The essays in this collection comprehensively examine this little known phenomenon in all areas where it is (or was) attested--most typically in Anatolia, the Caucasus and Transcaucasus, Aryan India, Eastern Siberia, Ethiopia, and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195087755
• ISBN13: 9780195087758
• Release Date: June 1995
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 520 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.7" x 8.9"