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The resilient dative and other remarkable cases in Scandinavian vernaculars

In this paper we look at the case systems in three Scandinavian vernaculars spoken in Sweden, viz. Elfdalian, Skelleftemål and Vätömål in relation to (i) problems concerning possible case systems and ways in which they can break down; (ii) earlier claims about case hierarchies; (iii) the interaction of case, number and definiteness in nominal paradigms...

Keywords: case, nominal paradigm, definiteness, number, markedness

01/2006 | STUF – Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung, Akademie Verlag

Suppletion in personal pronouns: Theory versus practice, and the place of reproducibility in typology

Reference grammars often set out the personal pronouns in paradigms similar to those of nouns...

Keywords: animacy hierarchy, associative, case, count?mass, database, inclusive?exclusive, inflection, minimal?augmented, number, paradigm, personal pronoun, plural, pronoun, reproducibility, suppletion, syncretism

06/2005 | Linguistic Typology, Walter de Gruyter

The noun phrase hierarchy and relational marking: Problems and counterevidence

A systematic collection of problems and counterexamples is presented for predictions of patterns of relational marking on noun phrases in terms of a noun phrase hierarchy (also known as animacy hierarchy), as conceived of by Silverstein (1976) and others...

Keywords: accusative, agentivity, alignment, animacy, case, ergative, hierarchy, markedness, noun phrase hierarchy, person, personal pronoun

06/2005 | Linguistic Typology, Walter de Gruyter

Typological variation in the ergative morphology of Indo-Aryan languages

While New Indo-Aryan languages are a common example of morphological ergativity, the range of variation in ergative marking and agreement among these languages has not been examined in detail...

Keywords: case, dialect variation, ergativity, Indo-Aryan, Marathi, markedness, Optimality Theory, perfective aspect, relational alignment, verb agreement