Full Description
This book deals with the category of case and where to place it in grammar. The crux of the debate lies in how the morphological expression of grammatical function should relate to formal syntax. In the generative tradition, this issue was addressed by the influential proposal that abstract syntactic Case should be dissociated from the morphological expression of case. The chapters in this book deal with a number of key issues in the ongoing debates that have emerged from this proposal. The first part discusses the modes that we need for structural case assignment, and how Case would relate to a theory of parameters. In the second part, contributors explore the division of labour between structural and inherent case, synchronically and diachronically, while the third part investigates individual cases and how they can illuminate case theory. The chapters discuss a wide range of phenomena, including differential object marking (DOM), global case splits, prepositional genitives and other prepositional phrases, nominative infinitival subjects, nominalizations of deponent verbs, and three-place predicates. They also draw on data from a variety of languages and language families, such as Hindi, Lithuanian, Kashmiri, Kinande, Greek, Hiberno-English, Romance, and Sahapatin.
Contents
1: Elena Anagnostopoulou and Christina Sevdali: Introduction: The place of case in grammar
Part I. Theoretical issues: Parametrization, dependent case, and Agree
2: Mark C. Baker: Dependent case and the sometimes independence of ergativity and Differential Object Marking
3: Julie Anne Legate: On theories of Case and Universal Grammar
4: Omer Preminger: Taxonomies of case and ontologies of case
5: András Bárány and Michelle Sheehan: Challenges for dependent case
6: M. Rita Manzini: Differential Object Marking and ergative as structural oblique cases in an Agree framework
7: Ian Roberts: Case and the theory of parameters
Part II. The distinction between structural and inherent case: Synchronic and diachronic issues
8: Thomas McFadden: A synthesis for the structural/inherent case distinction and its comparative and diachronic consequences
9: Olga Kagan: Can case be semantic?
10: Christin Beck and Miriam Butt: The rise of dative subjects: Relative prominence in event structure
11: Dimitris Michelioudakis, Stergios Chatzikyriakidis, and Giorgos Spathas: The emergence of prepositional genitives in Greek and its diachronic implications
12: Vassilios Spyropoulos: . Case, function, and Prepositional Phrase structure in Ancient Greek
13: Fenna Bergsma: The R-pronoun and postposition waar-mee in Dutch
Part III. Specific cases: Nominatives, genitives, datives, and partitives
14: David Pesetsky: Arguments from case for a derivational theory of finiteness: Nominative memories of a past life
15: Nigel Duffield: Reconsidering nominative case in English: 'We bade it a tedious returning'
16: Paola Crisma, Cristina Guardiano, and Giuseppe Longobardi: A unified theory of Case form and Case meaning: Genitives and parametric syntax
17: Artemis Alexiadou: Greek deponent verbs and their nominalizations: Genitive case as unmarked case in the nominal domain
18: Elena Anagnostopoulou, Morgan Macleod, Dionysios Mertyris, and Christina Sevdali: Genitives and datives with Ancient Greek three-place predicates
19: Patricia Schneider-Zioga and Monica Alexandrina Irimia: Partitives, Case, and licensing in Kinande
