Description
Differential argument marking has been a hot topic in linguistics for several decades, both because it is cross-linguistically widespread and because it raises essential questions at multiple levels of grammar, including the relationship between abstract processes and overt morphological marking, between case and agreement, and between syntax and information structure.
This volume provides an introduction into the current state of the art of research on differential case marking and chapters by leading linguists addressing theoretical questions in a wide range of typologically and geographically diverse languages from the Indo-European, Sinitic, Turkic, and Uralic families. The chapters engage with current theoretical issues in the morphology, syntax, semantics, and processing of differential argument marking. A central issue addressed by all the authors is the adequacy of various theoretical approaches in modelling (different varieties of) differential case marking, such as those determined by topicality, those driven by cumulative factors, and those that involve double marking.
The volume will be of interest to students and researchers working on cross-linguistic variation in differential marking and its theoretical modelling.
Author: No Contributor
Publisher: de Gruyter
Published: 07/04/2022
Pages: 362
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.23lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.81d
ISBN13: 9783110992380
ISBN10: 3110992388
BISAC Categories:
- Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics | Syntax
- Foreign Language Study | Creole Languages
About the Author
András Bárány, SOAS University of London, London, UK; Laura Kalin, Princeton University, Princeton, USA.