Case and Aspect in Slavic

by Kylie Richardson

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199291960
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	08/23/2007
Series:	Oxford Linguistics
Pages:	282
Product dimensions:	9.21(w) x 6.14(h) x 0.69(d)

About the Author

Kylie Richardson (MA University of Toronto, PhD Harvard University) is a lecturer in Slavonic linguistics in the Department of Slavonic Languages at the University of Cambridge and a fellow at Trinity Hall. Her research interests include the syntax of the Slavonic languages, the role of case in syntactic theory, and aspect.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction2. Preliminaries3. Case Marking on the Internal Argument and Lexical Aspect4. Case and Grammatical Aspect in East Slavonic Depictives5. Extensions of the Link Between Case and Grammatical Aspect6. Concluding RemarksAppendix: Lexical Case Assigning Base verbs in the Slavonic LanguagesBibliography