| Description |
1 online resource (x, 409 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Linguistik aktuell = Linguistics today, 0166-0829 ; v. 82 |
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Linguistik aktuell ; Bd. 82.
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| Contents |
The Distribution of Pronoun Case Forms in English; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; dedication; TABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; KEY TO ABBREVIATIONS; INTRODUCTION; 1. THE HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH CASE SYSTEM; 2. FORMAL APPROACHES TO CASE AND THE THREE CASE CONSTRAINTS; 3. CASE AND THE WEAK/STRONG DISTINCTION IN THE ENGLISH PRONOUN SYSTEM; 4. THE EMPIRICAL SURVEY; 5. THE SURVEY RESULTS; 6. RELATIVE POSITIONAL CODING AND THE INVARIANT STRONG FORM CONSTRAINTS; 7. MODELLING THE INTERACTION OF THE CONSTRAINTS; 8. THE DISTRIBUTION OF PERSONAL PRONOUN FORMS IN OTHER STRONG PRONOUN CONTEXTS |
| Summary |
This book offers an in-depth analysis of Modern English pronoun case. The author examines case trends in a wide range of syntactic constructions and concludes that case variation is confined to strong pronoun contexts. Data from a survey of 90 speakers provide new insights into the distributional differences between strong 1sg and non-1sg case forms and reveal systematic case variation within the speech of individuals as well as across speakers. The empirical findings suggest that morphological case is best treated as a PF phenomenon conditioned by semantic, syntactic, and phonological factors |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 384-397) and indexes |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
English language -- Pronoun.
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English language -- Case.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Grammar & Punctuation.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Syntax.
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English language -- Case
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English language -- Pronoun
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Engels.
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Voornaamwoorden.
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Naamvallen.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2005050763 |
| ISBN |
9789027294197 |
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9027294194 |
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9789027228062 |
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902722806X |
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1282156489 |
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9781282156487 |
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9786612156489 |
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6612156481 |
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