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/Serbian and also shows that the links between case and aspect in the Slavic languages belong to a much larger pattern found in language in general. She also focuses on links between case and grammatical aspect in depictive, predicative participle, and copular constructions in the East Slavic languages. The book will appeal to scholars and advanced students of aspect, and to all Slavicists.
Author(s): Kylie Richardson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Year: 2007
Language: English
Pages: 282
Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgements......Page 8
List of Abbreviations......Page 9
A Note on Transliteration......Page 11
1 Introduction......Page 12
2 Lexical versus grammatical aspect......Page 20
3 What is case?......Page 37
4 Conclusion......Page 60
1 Introduction......Page 61
2 Base verbs and syntactic prefixation......Page 63
3 Case and lexical aspect......Page 73
4 The syntax of Case and lexical aspect in the Slavic languages......Page 102
5 Unaccusatives......Page 111
6 Conclusion......Page 117
1 Introduction......Page 118
2 What is a depictive?......Page 122
3 Grammatical aspect and the instrumental–Case agreement dichotomy......Page 134
4 The syntax of depictives......Page 146
5 The syntax of Case in East Slavic depictives......Page 168
6 Conclusion......Page 173
1 Introduction......Page 175
2 Participle constructions in Russian......Page 178
3 Copular constructions in the East Slavic languages......Page 203
4 Conclusion......Page 235
6 Concluding Remarks......Page 237
Appendix: Lexical case-assigning base verbs in the Slavic languages......Page 239
References......Page 260
D......Page 280
P......Page 281
W......Page 282
