Russian Case Morphology and the Syntactic Categories by David Pesetsky

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By David Pesetsky

In this booklet, David Pesetsky argues that the peculiarities of Russian nominal words offer major clues about the syntactic part of morphological case. Pesetsky argues opposed to the normal view that case different types reminiscent of nominative or genitive have a unique prestige within the grammar of human languages. aiding his argument with an in depth research of a posh array of morpho-syntactic phenomena within the Russian noun word (with short tours to different languages), he proposes in its place that the case different types are only part-of-speech gains copied as morphology from head to established as syntactic constitution is built.Pesetsky offers a cautious research of 1 of the thorniest issues in Russian grammar, the morpho-syntax of noun words with numerals (including these typically referred to as the paucals). He argues that those bewilderingly advanced proof will be defined if case different types are seen easily as elements of speech, assigned as morphology. Pesetsky's research is remarkable for supplying a brand new theoretical viewpoint on one of the most complicated components of Russian grammar, a hugely unique account of nominal case that considerably impacts our knowing of a massive estate of language.

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