6. Relative Positional Coding and the Invariant Strong Form constraints

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Acknowledgements xi
4. Key to abbreviations xii
5. Introduction 1
6. 1. The history of the English case system 8
7. 2. Formal approaches to case and the three case constraints 26
8. 3. Case and the weak/strong distinction in the English pronoun system 65
9. 4. The empirical survey 78
10. 5. The survey results 101
11. 6. Relative Positional Coding and the Invariant Strong Form constraints 148
12. 7. Modelling the interaction of the constraints 178
13. 8. The distribution of personal pronoun forms in other strong pronoun contexts 201
14. 9. The distribution of wh -pronoun forms in Modern English 310
15. 10. Speculations and conclusions 370
16. References 384
17. Name index 398
18. Subject index 402