Two modalities of case assignment: case in Sakha

• Published in: Natural language and linguistic theory Vol. 28; no. 3; pp. 593 - 642
• Main Authors: Baker, Mark C., Vinokurova, Nadya
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht Springer 01.08.2010; Springer Netherlands; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Accusative case; Adverbs; Agreement; Agreement (Grammatical); Case marking; Chomsky, Avram Noam; Dissertations & theses; Functional Heads; Grammar; Grammatical clauses; Language; Linguistics; Morphology; Natural language; Natural Language Processing (NLP); Nominalization; Nominative case; Noun Phrases; Nouns; Philosophy of Language; Predicates; Relative clauses; Social Sciences; Syntax; Theory; Turkic Languages; Universal Grammar; Verbs; Turkic languages; Agreement; Sakha; Dependent case; Case assignment

Two distinct ideas about how morphological case is assigned exist in the recent generative literature: the standard Chomskyan view that case is assigned by designated functional heads to the closest NP via an agreement relationship, and an alternative view in which case is assigned to one NP if ther...