Russian case morphology and the syntactic categories /David Pesetsky.
Pesetsky, David Michael,
Russian case morphology and the syntactic categories /David Pesetsky. - Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, (c)2013. - 1 online resource (xii, 173 pages) : illustrations. - Linguistic inquiry monographs ; 66 .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction to the puzzles -- Do we need the traditional case categories? -- Russian as a case-stacking language -- Argument 1 for the core proposal : NGEN, DNOM and POBL -- An independent argument from gender agreement for the initial low position of paucals -- Numerals and other quantifiers -- VACC and the morphosyntax of direct objects -- Argument 2 for the core proposal : "You are what you assign" -- Feature assignment and the notion "prototype" -- Conclusions -- Nominative plural adjectives in paucal constructions -- A defectivity puzzle : the numeral-classifier construction -- A South Slavic argument by Horvath (2011) that "you are what you assign" holds of prepositions.
9780262314503
Russian language--Case.
Russian language--Morphology.
Russian language--Syntax.
Grammar, Comparative and general--Nominals.
Electronic Books.
PG2221 / .R877 2013
Russian case morphology and the syntactic categories /David Pesetsky. - Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, (c)2013. - 1 online resource (xii, 173 pages) : illustrations. - Linguistic inquiry monographs ; 66 .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction to the puzzles -- Do we need the traditional case categories? -- Russian as a case-stacking language -- Argument 1 for the core proposal : NGEN, DNOM and POBL -- An independent argument from gender agreement for the initial low position of paucals -- Numerals and other quantifiers -- VACC and the morphosyntax of direct objects -- Argument 2 for the core proposal : "You are what you assign" -- Feature assignment and the notion "prototype" -- Conclusions -- Nominative plural adjectives in paucal constructions -- A defectivity puzzle : the numeral-classifier construction -- A South Slavic argument by Horvath (2011) that "you are what you assign" holds of prepositions.
9780262314503
Russian language--Case.
Russian language--Morphology.
Russian language--Syntax.
Grammar, Comparative and general--Nominals.
Electronic Books.
PG2221 / .R877 2013