In Case, Mark Baker develops a unified theory of how the morphological case marking of
noun phrases is determined by syntactic structure. Designed to work well for languages of …

Features are a central concept in linguistic analysis. They are the basic building blocks of
linguistic units, such as words. For many linguists they offer the most revealing way to …

This dissertation shows how languages differ in their morphosyntactic sensitivity to
variations in the semantics of direct objects. Whereas some languages reflect semantic …

The term optional case marking (OCM) refers to the situation in which, in specifiable
grammatical environments, a case marking morpheme may be either present or absent from …

This paper gives an overview of differential place marking phenomena and formulates a
number of universals that seem to be well supported. Differential place marking is a situation …

On the basis of a world-wide convenience sample of 116 languages, the distribution of zero-
marking of spatial relations over the languages of the world is shown to largely escape any …

The Space of Case Page 1 The Space of Case Sander Lestrade Page 2 Printing: Ipskamp
drukkers Cover design: Lotte Holman ISBN 978-90-9025746-4 NUR 616 Copyright c 2010 by …

Page 1 TRANSITIVITY AND OBJECT MARKING IN BIBLICAL HEBREW Page 2 HARVARD
SEMITIC MUSEUM PUBLICATIONS Lawrence E. Stager, General Editor Michael D. Coogan …

Let us consider first the question of universality of valency classes as far as coding is
concerned. On the one hand, there are clearly certain cross-linguistic regularities in coding …

The phenomenon of case has long been a central topic of study in linguistics. While the
majority of the literature so far has been on the syntax of case, semantics also has a crucial …