Case and aspect in Slavic
Slavic languages
Oxford University Press
2007
EISBN 1281154911
Lexical versus grammatical aspect.
What is case?.
Case marking on the internal argument and lexical aspect.
Base verbs and syntactic prefixation.
Case and lexical aspect.
The syntax of case and lexical aspect in the Slavic languages.
Unaccusatives.
Case and grammatical aspect in East Slavic depictives.
What is a depictive?.
Grammatical aspect and the instrumental-case agreement dichotomy.
The syntax of depictives.
The syntax of case in East Slavic depictives.
Extensions of the link between case and grammatical aspect.
Participle constructions in Russian.
Copular constructions in the East Slavic languages.
The role of structural case in syntax is arguably one of the most controversial topics in syntactic theory with important implications for semantic theory. This book focuses on some of the most puzzling case marking patterns in the Slavic languages and ties these patterns to different types of aspectual phenomena, showing that there is after all a pattern in the seeming chaos of case in the Slavic languages. Kylie Richardson addresses links between the case marking on objects and the event structure of a verb phrase in Belarusian, Russian, Ukrainian, Czech, Slovak, Polish, and Bosnian/Croatian
What is case?.
Case marking on the internal argument and lexical aspect.
Base verbs and syntactic prefixation.
Case and lexical aspect.
The syntax of case and lexical aspect in the Slavic languages.
Unaccusatives.
Case and grammatical aspect in East Slavic depictives.
What is a depictive?.
Grammatical aspect and the instrumental-case agreement dichotomy.
The syntax of depictives.
The syntax of case in East Slavic depictives.
Extensions of the link between case and grammatical aspect.
Participle constructions in Russian.
Copular constructions in the East Slavic languages.
The role of structural case in syntax is arguably one of the most controversial topics in syntactic theory with important implications for semantic theory. This book focuses on some of the most puzzling case marking patterns in the Slavic languages and ties these patterns to different types of aspectual phenomena, showing that there is after all a pattern in the seeming chaos of case in the Slavic languages. Kylie Richardson addresses links between the case marking on objects and the event structure of a verb phrase in Belarusian, Russian, Ukrainian, Czech, Slovak, Polish, and Bosnian/Croatian
