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.
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Russian language--Case. Russian language--Morphology. Russian language--Syntax. Grammar, Comparative and general--Nominals.