The distribution of pronoun case forms in English:
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Main Author: Quinn, Heidi (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam John Benjamins Pub. ©2005
Series:Linguistik aktuell Bd. 82
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (pages 384-397) and indexes
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.
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
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (x, 409 pages)
ISBN:902722806X
9027294194
9789027228062
9789027294197

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