TYP109 - Case
Channel: The Virtual Linguistics Campus
Date: 2012-10-30

This E-Lecture discusses the notion of case cross-linguistically. Using a variety of examples Jürgen Handke first illustrates the morpho-syntactic case-marking possibilities and then defines the theoretical options of case marking: direct vs. oblique.The E-Lecture closes with a discussion of case syncretism and its consquences towards word order.