Constructive Case: Evidence From Australian Languages

Rachel Nordlinger (Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, Canberra)

Format
Hardback
Publisher
Centre for the Study of Language & Information
Country
United States
Published
1 June 1998
Pages
208
ISBN
9781575861357

Constructive Case: Evidence From Australian Languages

Rachel Nordlinger (Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, Canberra)

Australian Aboriginal languages have many interesting grammatical characteristics that challenge some of the central assumptions of current linguistic theory. These languages exhibit many unusual morphosyntactic characteristics that have not yet been adequately incorporated into current linguistic theory. This volume focuses on the complex properties of case morphology in these nonconfigurational languages, including extensive case stacking and the use of case to mark tense/aspect/mood. While problematic for many syntactic approaches, these case properties are given a natural and unified account in the lexicalist model of constructive case developed in this book, which allows case morphology to construct the larger syntactic context independently of phrase structure.

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