Partially ordered case hierarchies

Bárány, András

doi:10.5334/gjgl.1451

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Taking the nominative (back) out of the accusative

Christopoulos

Zompì

2022

Nat Lang Linguist Theory

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The nominative, the accusative and the dative have been recently argued to stand in proper containment to one another. In contrast to more traditional decompositions which posited no such containment, this new decomposition has been shown to account for the absence of ABA exponence patterns for this triplet of cases, i.e. for the fact that no rule of exponence applies in both nominative and dative without also applying in the accusative. We point out that, in addition to its desirable predictions regarding *ABA, the more recent decomposition also makes an undesirable prediction about the derivation of ABB patterns, as we show based on data from Indo-European languages. We argue that a third theory—under which the accusative is properly contained within the dative, but the nominative and the accusative do not stand in a containment relation to one another—accounts for all the relevant facts.

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Taking the nominative (back) out of the accusative

Christopoulos

Zompì

2022

Nat Lang Linguist Theory

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Introduction

Irimia,

Mardale

2023

Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today

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The Place of Case in Grammar

2024

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This book deals with the category of case and where to place it in grammar, in particular how the morphological expression of grammatical function should relate to formal syntax. In the generative tradition, this issue was dealt by the influential proposal of the dissociation between abstract syntactic Case on the one hand, as a means for nominals to be licensed in the derivation, and the morphological expression of case on the other, as an idiosyncratic property of individual languages that is not always necessarily present. However, the expansion of the empirical picture in terms of cross-linguistic variation has brought theoretical tension and it becomes increasingly clear that the mapping of morphology and syntax is not ‘one-to-one’. Our book deals with a number of key issues on this ongoing debate that map onto, roughly, its three parts. The first one has to do with the modes that we need for structural case assignment: whether we only need one or two and whether these are Agree-based (where Case is a reflex of agreement) or dependent case based (where Case is assigned configurationally to nominals in a certain domain). This part also discusses how Case would relate to a theory of parameters. The second theme and part of the book deals with what traditionally has been labelled as the division of labour between structural and inherent case, synchronically but also diachronically. And finally, the third part of the book deals with individual cases and how they can illuminate case theory.

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Partially ordered case hierarchies

Cited by 27 publications

References 57 publications

Taking the nominative (back) out of the accusative

Taking the nominative (back) out of the accusative

Introduction

The Place of Case in Grammar

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