TY - BOOK ID - 63710202 TI - Competition and variation in natural languages : the case for case AU - Hoop, Helen de AU - Amberber, Mengistu PY - 2005 SN - 0080446515 9786610632930 1280632933 0080459773 9780080446516 9780080459776 PB - Amsterdam ; San Diego, CA ; Oxford : Elsevier, DB - UniCat KW - Grammar, Comparative and general KW - Cognitive science. KW - Science KW - Philosophy of mind KW - Case KW - Case. KW - Linguistics KW - Philology KW - Cas (Linguistique). KW - Cognition. KW - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES KW - Langage et langues. KW - Language and languages. KW - Language. KW - Naamvallen. KW - cognition. KW - Grammar & Punctuation. KW - Syntax. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:63710202 AB - This volume combines different perspectives on case-marking: (1) typological and descriptive approaches of various types and instances of case-marking in the languages of the world as well as comparison with languages that express similar types of relations without morphological case-marking; (2) formal analyses in different theoretical frameworks of the syntactic, semantic, and morphological properties of case-marking; (3) a historical approach of case-marking; (4) a psycholinguistic approach of case-marking. Although there are a number of publications on case related issues, there ER -