Russian case morphology and the syntactic categories / David Pesetsky.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Linguistic inquiry monographs ; 66Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : MIT Press, [2013]Copyright date: ©2013Description: 1 online resource (192 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
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  • computer
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  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780262314503 (ebook)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Russian case morphology and the syntactic categories.DDC classification:
  • 491.75 23
LOC classification:
  • PG2221 .P47 2013eb
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Contents:
1. Introduction to the puzzles -- 2. Do we need the traditional case categories? -- 3. Russian as a case-stacking language -- 4. Argument 1 for the core proposal : NGEN, DNOM and POBL -- 5. An independent argument from gender agreement for the initial low position of paucals -- 6. Numerals and other quantifiers -- 7. VACC and the morphosyntax of direct objects -- 8. Argument 2 for the core proposal : "You are what you assign" -- 9. Feature assignment and the notion "prototype" -- 10. Conclusions -- appendix 1. Nominative plural adjectives in paucal constructions -- appendix 2. A defectivity puzzle : the numeral-classifier construction -- appendix 3. A South Slavic argument by Horvath (2011) that "you are what you assign" holds of prepositions.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Introduction to the puzzles -- 2. Do we need the traditional case categories? -- 3. Russian as a case-stacking language -- 4. Argument 1 for the core proposal : NGEN, DNOM and POBL -- 5. An independent argument from gender agreement for the initial low position of paucals -- 6. Numerals and other quantifiers -- 7. VACC and the morphosyntax of direct objects -- 8. Argument 2 for the core proposal : "You are what you assign" -- 9. Feature assignment and the notion "prototype" -- 10. Conclusions -- appendix 1. Nominative plural adjectives in paucal constructions -- appendix 2. A defectivity puzzle : the numeral-classifier construction -- appendix 3. A South Slavic argument by Horvath (2011) that "you are what you assign" holds of prepositions.

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