Competition and variation in natural languages
Subtitle: the case for case
By: edited by Mengistu Amberber, Helen de Hoop.
Contributors: Amberber, Mengistu, 1961-; Hoop, Helen de, 1964-
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Perspectives on cognitive science; Perspectives on cognitive science (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Publisher: Elsevier
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Amsterdam; San Diego, CA; Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 361
Subjects: Grammar, Comparative and general -- Case.; Naamvallen.
Description: x, 361 pages : 24 cm
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Competition and variation in natural languages : the case for case / Mengistu Amberber and Helen de Hoop; title: Some participants are more equal than others : case and the composition of arguments in Kuuk Thaayorre / Alice Gaby; title: Head marking and dependent marking of grammatical relations in Yurakaré / Rik van Gijn; title: Case pattern splits, verb types and construction competition / Andrej L. Malchukov; title: Limits to case; title: a critical survey of the notion / Andrew Spencer and Ryo Otoguro; title: Case as feature checking and the status of predicate initial languages / Lisa deMena Travis; title: The case of Basque : an accusative analysis for an ergative system / Mario van de Visser; title: Noun phrase resolution : the correlation between case and ambiguity / Peter de Swart; title: Changes in case marking in NP : from Old English to Middle English / Cynthia L. Allen; title: The on-line resolution of subject-object ambiguities with and without case-marking in Dutch : evidence from event-related brain potentials / Monique Lamers; title: Differential subject marking in Amharic / Mengistu Amberber; title: Differential case-marking in Hindi / Helen de Hoop and Bhuvana Narasimhan.