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Henry Smith develops a theory of syntactic case and examines its synchronic and diachronic consequences. Within a unification-based framework, he draws out pervasive patterns in the relationship between morphosyntax "linking" and grammatical function. Beginning with a detailed study of dative substitution in Icelandic, the author moves on to examine a wide array of synchronic and diachronic data and to construct a typology of case.
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- Author
- Henry E Smith
- Publisher
- Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press
- Published
- 1996
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780511519970
- Category
- language
- Subjects
- Language Learning, Literary Fiction, Language Arts & Disciplines
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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