16.2362, Books: Morphology/Syntax, English: Quinn

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From: Paul Peranteau < paul at benjamins.com >
Subject: The Distribution of Pronoun Case Forms in English: Quinn 

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Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 15:41:46
From: Paul Peranteau < paul at benjamins.com >
Subject: The Distribution of Pronoun Case Forms in English: Quinn 

Title: The Distribution of Pronoun Case Forms in English 
Series Title: Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 82  

Publication Year: 2005 
Publisher: John Benjamins
	   http://www.benjamins.com/

Book URL: http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=LA%2082 

Author: Heidi Quinn, University of Canterbury

Hardback: ISBN: 902722806X Pages: xii, 409 Price: Europe EURO 125.00
Hardback: ISBN: 902722806X Pages: xii, 409 Price: U.S. $ 150.00

Abstract:

This book offers an in-depth analysis of Modern English pronoun case. The
author examines case trends in a wide range of syntactic constructions and
concludes that case variation is confined to strong pronoun contexts. Data
from a survey of 90 speakers provide new insights into the distributional
differences between strong 1sg and non-1sg case forms and reveal systematic
case variation within the speech of individuals as well as across speakers.
The empirical findings suggest that morphological case is best treated as a
PF phenomenon conditioned by semantic, syntactic, and phonological factors.
In order to capture the way in which these linguistic factors interact to
produce the pronoun case patterns exhibited by individual speakers, the
author introduces a novel constraint-based approach to morphological case.
Current case trends are also considered in a wider historical context and
are related to a change in the licensing of structural arguments. 

Table of contents

Acknowledgements  xi  
Key to abbreviations  xii  
Introduction  1  
1. The history of the English case system  8  
2. Formal approaches to case and the three case constraints  26  
3. Case and the weak/strong distinction in the English pronoun system  65  
4. The empirical survey  78  
5. The survey results  101  
6. Relative Positional Coding and the Invariant Strong Form constraints  148  
7. Modelling the interaction of the constraints  178  
8. The distribution of personal pronoun forms in other strong pronoun
contexts  201  
9. The distribution of wh-pronoun forms in Modern English  310  
10. Speculations and conclusions  370  
References  384  
Name index  398  
Subject index  402 

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Morphology
                     Syntax

Subject Language(s): English (ENG)

Written In: English  (ENG)

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