Competition and variation in natural languages : the case for case / edited by Mengistu Amberber, Helen de Hoop.

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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Amsterdam ; London : Elsevier, 2005.
Description
x, 361 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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    Series
    Perspectives on cognitive science [More in this series]
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
    Contents
    • Competition and variation in natural languages : the case for case / Mengistu Amberber and Helen de Hoop
    • Some participants are more equal than others : case and the composition of arguments in Kuuk Thaayorre / Alice Gaby
    • Head marking and dependent marking of grammatical relations in Yurakaré / Rik van Gijn
    • Case pattern splits, verb types and construction competition / Andrej L. Malchukov
    • Limits to case--a critical survey of the notion / Andrew Spencer and Ryo Otoguro
    • Case as feature checking and the status of predicate initial languages / Lisa deMena Travis
    • The case of Basque : an accusative analysis for an ergative system / Mario van de Visser
    • Noun phrase resolution : the correlation between case and ambiguity / Peter de Swart
    • Changes in case marking in NP : from Old English to Middle English / Cynthia L. Allen
    • The on-line resolution of subject-object ambiguities with and without case-marking in Dutch : evidence from event-related brain potentials / Monique Lamers
    • Differential subject marking in Amharic / Mengistu Amberber
    • Differential case-marking in Hindi / Helen de Hoop and Bhuvana Narasimhan.
    ISBN
    • 0080446515
    • 9780080446516
    OCLC
    60611855
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