Anagnostopoulou - The Place of Case in Grammar

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Anagnostopoulou - The Place of Case in Grammar

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June 2024
This book deals with the category of case and where to place it in grammar. The crux of the debate lies in how the morphological expression of grammatical function should relate to formal syntax. In the generative tradition, this issue was addressed by the influential proposal that abstract syntactic Case should be dissociated from the morphological expression of case. The chapters in this book deal with a number of key issues in the ongoing debates that have emerged from this proposal. The first part discusses the modes that we need for structural case assignment, and how Case would relate to a theory of parameters. In the second part, contributors explore the division of labour between structural and inherent case, synchronically and diachronically, while the third part investigates individual cases and how they can illuminate case theory. The chapters discuss a wide range of phenomena, including differential object marking (DOM), global case splits, prepositional genitives and other prepositional phrases, nominative infinitival subjects, nominalizations of deponent verbs, and three-place predicates. They also draw on data from a variety of languages and language families, such as Hindi, Lithuanian, Kashmiri, Kinande, Greek, Hiberno-English, Romance, and Sahapatin.
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Not a dedicated book on Greek, but two chapters that deal with case in Ancient Greek and some on Greek more loosely defined

11. The emergence of prepositional genitives in Greek and its diachronic implications, Dimitris Michelioudakis, Stergios Chatzikyriakidis, and Giorgos Spathas
12. . Case, function, and Prepositional Phrase structure in Ancient Greek, Vassilios Spyropoulos
17. Greek deponent verbs and their nominalizations: Genitive case as unmarked case in the nominal domain, Artemis Alexiadou
18. Genitives and datives with Ancient Greek three-place predicates, Elena Anagnostopoulou, Morgan Macleod, Dionysios Mertyris, and Christina Sevdali
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Re: Anagnostopoulou - The Place of Case in Grammar

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A word of caution is that this book operates within the generative linguistic tradition (think Chomsky), which a lot of people find unhelpful for anything exegetical.
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