Russian case morphology and the syntactic categories / / David Pesetsky.

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Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, Massachusetts : : MIT Press,, [2013]
2013
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Series:Linguistic inquiry monographs ; 66
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Physical Description:1 online resource (192 pages) :; illustrations.
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Table of 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.