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Case is an accessible introduction for students of linguistics to the ways relations between words in sentences are marked in languages. Case is fundamental to the whole system of language. One of its most interesting features is the recurrence of apparently idiosyncratic patterns and devices in otherwise unrelated languages. This book picks out these recurring strategies and explores their significance. It provides the background against which the case-marking of particular languages can be best understood. In this revised 2001 edition, Blake refines and expands on his discussions of the most important concepts in the study of case, taking into account recent developments in the field. It incorporates significant additions to the data and includes a thoroughly revised section on abstract case in the Chomskyan paradigm.

Grammar, Comparative and general --- Case. --- Grammar [Comparative and general ] --- Case --- Arts and Humanities --- Language & Linguistics --- 801.5 --- 801.5 Grammatica --- Grammatica --- Linguistics --- Philology --- Grammar, Comparative and general - Case. --- Grammar, Comparative and general - Case

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Case, a system which marks the relationships between words in a sentence, is fundamental to every language. Looking at how different theories of syntax have accounted for the distribution of case across languages, this accessible 2006 textbook introduces the various approaches to case that have been proposed in modern linguistics. Clearly organised into topics, it provides beginning students with a solid understanding of the ideas behind the development of theories of case. For the more advanced reader, it presents theories that have been formulated about the interaction between case morphology, argument structure, grammatical relations and semantics, and offers a detailed cross-theoretical discussion of how these are motivated. Each chapter contains practical exercises, encouraging students to engage with the ideas discussed. Drawing on data from a wide range of languages and pooling together a variety of perspectives, Theories of Case is essential reading for all those studying this important area of linguistics.

Grammar, Comparative and general --- Case --- 801.56 --- Syntaxis. Semantiek --- Case. --- 801.56 Syntaxis. Semantiek --- Arts and Humanities --- Language & Linguistics --- Linguistics --- Philology --- Grammar, Comparative and general - Case

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On the basis of synchronic and diachronic data analysis, the volume takes a close look at the synchronic layers of binominal size noun and type noun uses (a bunch/a load of X; a sort of X; a Y type of X) and reconsiders the framework of grammaticalization in view of issues raised by the phrases under discussion. As a result, a construction grammar-approach to grammaticalization is developed which does justice to the syntagmatic lexical, or collocational, reclustering observed in the data within an eclectic cognitive-functional approach.

English language --- Grammar --- Grammar, Comparative and general - Case. --- Grammar, Comparative and general -- Case. --- Grammar, Comparative and general - Noun. --- Grammar, Comparative and general -- Noun. --- Noun constructions. --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Languages & Literatures --- Philology & Linguistics --- Noun --- Case --- Case. --- Noun. --- Nominals --- Grammaticalisation --- Phrase nominale --- Linguistics --- Philology --- Construction Grammar. --- English/language. --- Grammaticalization. --- Historical Linguistics.

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The present volume is a collection of fifteen original articles that include descriptive, typological and/or theoretical studies of a number of morphosyntactic phenomena, such as case, transitivity, grammaticalization, valency alternations, etc., in a variety of languages or language groups, and discussions concerning theoretical issues in specific grammatical frameworks. The collection, written in honor of the Australian linguist Barry J. Blake on his 60th birthday, thematically reflects the field that Professor Blake has worked in over the past three decades. The volume will be of special in

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Grammar, Comparative and general --- Case --- -801.55 --- Comparative grammar --- Grammar --- Grammar, Philosophical --- Grammar, Universal --- Language and languages --- Philosophical grammar --- Linguistics --- Philology --- Morfologie--(taalkunde) --- Grammar, Comparative --- 801.55 Morfologie--(taalkunde) --- 801.55 --- Grammar, Comparative and general - Case