A Note on Oblique Case: Evidence from Serbian / Croatian
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Julia Horvath
Abstract
Manifestations of oblique case in Serbian/Croatian (specifically, the dative and the instrumental) present a puzzling pattern of distribution. The paper proposes an analysis for the source of the relevant case phenomena that can resolve the puzzle, rendering it a direct consequence of an independently attested property, namely, the Case Realization Condition of oblique case in the language. It also provides striking evidence regarding the nature and assigner of oblique case in general. The phenomena and their account will lead to the conclusion that contrary to appearances, and in contrast to the standard assumption, lexically governed cases can only be assigned by (overt or null) instances of the category P.
Abstract
Manifestations of oblique case in Serbian/Croatian (specifically, the dative and the instrumental) present a puzzling pattern of distribution. The paper proposes an analysis for the source of the relevant case phenomena that can resolve the puzzle, rendering it a direct consequence of an independently attested property, namely, the Case Realization Condition of oblique case in the language. It also provides striking evidence regarding the nature and assigner of oblique case in general. The phenomena and their account will lead to the conclusion that contrary to appearances, and in contrast to the standard assumption, lexically governed cases can only be assigned by (overt or null) instances of the category P.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents vii
- List of contributors ix
- List of abbreviations xi
- List of figures xiii
- Editors' note xv
- Preface xvii
- Introduction 1
- The overgeneration problem and the case of semipredicatives in Russian 13
- Polish equatives as symmetrical structures 61
- Syntactic (dis)agreement is not semantic agreement 95
- A Note on Oblique Case: Evidence from Serbian / Croatian 117
- The structure of null subject DPs and agreement in Polish impersonal constructions 129
- The feature geometry of generic inclusive null DPs in Hungarian 165
- Possessives within and beyond NP 193
- On pre-nominal classifying adjectives in Polish 221
- Determiners and Possessives in Old English and Polish 247
- Agreement and definiteness in Germanic DPs 267
- Transparent free relatives 295
- Index 319
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents vii
- List of contributors ix
- List of abbreviations xi
- List of figures xiii
- Editors' note xv
- Preface xvii
- Introduction 1
- The overgeneration problem and the case of semipredicatives in Russian 13
- Polish equatives as symmetrical structures 61
- Syntactic (dis)agreement is not semantic agreement 95
- A Note on Oblique Case: Evidence from Serbian / Croatian 117
- The structure of null subject DPs and agreement in Polish impersonal constructions 129
- The feature geometry of generic inclusive null DPs in Hungarian 165
- Possessives within and beyond NP 193
- On pre-nominal classifying adjectives in Polish 221
- Determiners and Possessives in Old English and Polish 247
- Agreement and definiteness in Germanic DPs 267
- Transparent free relatives 295
- Index 319
