Datives And Other Cases: Between Argument Structure And Event Structure

Hole, Daniel P. (Editor)/ Abraham, Werner (Editor)/ Meinunger, Andre (Editor)

ISBN 10: 9027230854 / ISBN 13: 9789027230850

Published by John Benjamins Pub Co, 2006

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381 pages. 9.50x6.25x1.00 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Datives And Other Cases: Between Argument Structure And Event Structure
• Publisher: John Benjamins Pub Co
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9027230854
• ISBN 13: 9789027230850
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.86 kilograms

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Synopsis

This volume provides a state-of-the-art account of research into datives and other morphological cases. The contributors, among them leading scholars in the field, present fresh insights into traditional issues such as the dichotomy between lexical and structural case, and open up fascinating new areas of research. A recurrent feature of the majority of contributions is their combined syntax-semantics perspective. Germanic varieties, Serbian, Albanian and other Balkan languages alongside Chinese, Japanese, Tagalog are discussed from various theoretical angles such as mainstream generativism, lexical-functional grammar, and functional typology. Despite the broad range of facts spanning the distance between acquisition data and dialectology, the papers are connected by a renewed interest in form-function correspondencies. This volume will be welcomed by theoretical linguists and typologists with an interest in argument and event structure, linguists studying the case systems of individual languages and researchers in search for up-to-date discussion of Germanic datives.