The Distribution of Pronoun Case Forms in EnglishJohn Benjamins Publishing, 28 lip 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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3 CASE AND THE WEAKSTRONG DISTINCTION IN THE ENGLISH PRONOUN SYSTEM | 65 |
4 THE EMPIRICAL SURVEY | 78 |
5 THE SURVEY RESULTS | 101 |
6 RELATIVE POSITIONAL CODING AND THE INVARIANT STRONG FORM CONSTRAINTS | 148 |
7 MODELLING THE INTERACTION OF THE CONSTRAINTS | 178 |
8 THE DISTRIBUTION OF PERSONAL PRONOUN FORMS IN OTHER STRONG PRONOUN CONTEXTS | 201 |
9 THE DISTRIBUTION OF WHPRONOUN FORMS IN MODERN ENGLISH | 310 |
10 SPECULATIONS AND CONCLUSIONS | 370 |
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3sgF 3sgM agreement agreement-related functional head Allen analysis appear approach Arg-Case argued argument hierarchy assume asymmetrically c-commands base-generated check nominative Pos-Case check Pos-Case ConjP conjuncts of object coreferent dative Def-Case constraint differences ellipsis favoured final final conjuncts finite finite clause focus pronoun free relatives genitive gerunds gracile headed relatives highest argument influenced initial conjunct it-clefts Jespersen & Haislund left-dislocated lexical Middle English Modern English nominative form non-case non-lsg noun phrase NumP object and prepositional objective form objective pronoun objective pronoun forms occur Old English overt patterns Pos-Case checking predict Present-Day English pronominal pronoun following pronoun forms pronoun-NP constructions relative clause Relative Positional Coding relativised constituent right-dislocated robust sentences small clauses speakers Spec,vP Spell-Out strong pronoun contexts structural argument subject coordinates suggests surface position syntactic Table tion topicalised variation verb or preposition weak pronouns wh-phrase wh-pronoun Zealand English