Can case be semantic? | The Place of Case in Grammar (2024)

The Place of Case in Grammar

Christina Sevdali (ed.) et al.

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2024

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9780191898167

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9780198865926

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The Place of Case in Grammar

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Olga Kagan

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Kagan, Olga, 'Can case be semantic?', in Christina Sevdali, Dionysios Mertyris, and Elena Anagnostopoulou (eds), The Place of Case in Grammar (Oxford, 2024; online edn, Oxford Academic, 18 July 2024), https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198865926.003.0009, accessed 3 Aug. 2024.

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Abstract

This chapter investigates the relation between natural language semantics and case-marking in languages of the world. It brings together a range of phenomena in which case assignment is affected by (or affects) meaning. Topics under discussion include, but are not limited to, case and theta-role assignment, Differential Object Marking and individuation, predicate case and the individual-/stage-level distinction, local cases, and the relation between case and aspect. The chapter considers different ways in which the semantic contribution associated with a case-marker can be made. The question is raised as to whether case can be treated as meaningful or should rather be considered a purely grammatical phenomenon whose relation to truth conditions is always indirect.

Keywords: Case, aspect, individuation, thematic roles, the syntax-semantics interface

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Linguistic Theories Grammar, Syntax and Morphology

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Olga Kagan, Can case be semantic?. In: The Place of Case in Grammar. Edited by: Christina Sevdali, Dionysios Mertyris, and Elena Anagnostopoulou, Oxford University Press. © Olga Kagan (2024). DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198865926.003.0009

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