The Distribution of Pronoun Case Forms in EnglishJohn Benjamins Publishing, 1 sty 2005 - 409 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. In order to capture the way in which these linguistic factors interact to produce the pronoun case patterns exhibited by individual speakers, the author introduces a novel constraint-based approach to morphological case. Current case trends are also considered in a wider historical context and are related to a change in the licensing of structural arguments. |
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The history of the English case system | 8 |
CHAPTER 2 | 25 |
CHAPTER 3 | 57 |
Case and the weakstrong distinction in the English pronoun system | 65 |
CHAPTER 4 | 77 |
CHAPTER 5 | 101 |
CHAPTER 6 | 148 |
CHAPTER 7 | 176 |
2 | 214 |
5 | 233 |
CHAPTER 9 | 309 |
CHAPTER 10 | 370 |
References | 384 |
| 398 | |
| 402 | |
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3sgF 3sgM agreement agreement-related functional head Alexiadou Allen analysis Anaphora appear approach Arg-Case argued argument hierarchy assume asymmetrically c-commands base-generated check nominative Pos-Case check Pos-Case clitic ConjP conjuncts of subject coreferent dative Def-Case constraint DP₁ ellipsis embedded favoured final conjunct finite clause focus pronoun free relatives Gelderen genitive gerunds gracile headed relatives highest argument influenced initial conjunct it-clefts Jespersen & Haislund left-dislocated lexical Linguistic matrix clause Middle English Modern English morphological nominative form noun phrase NumP object and prepositional objective form objective pronoun occur Old English overt patterns Pintzuk Pos-Case checking predict preposition stranding Present-Day English pronominal relative clause Relative Positional Coding relative-internal relativised constituent right-dislocated sentences small clauses speakers Spec,vP specifier Spell-Out structural argument subject coordinates suggests surface position syntactic Syntax tion topicalised unable to check variation verb or preposition weak pronouns wh-forms wh-phrase wh-pronoun wh-pronoun functions Zealand English