| ROA: | 744 |
| Title: | Differential argument marking in two-term case systems and its implications for the general theory of case marking |
| Authors: | Peter Arkadiev |
| Comment: | Submitted to Helen de Hoop & Peter de Swart (eds.), Differential Subject Marking, to appear in Kluwer |
| Length: | 24 |
| Abstract: | In this paper I discuss data from Indo-Iranian and Uto-Aztecan languages with only two cases, where some blatanlty 'non-discriminative' patterns of case marking of the core arguments emerge due to the interaction of universal functional constraints. I argue that a comprehensive OT conception of case marking should take into account these phenomena, and outline such an approach. I show that different patterns of argument encoding are determined not only by the ranking of universal constraints but also by the language particular inventory of case markers. |
| Type: | Paper/tech report |
| Area/Keywords: | Syntax, linguistic typology |
| Article: | Version 1
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