Case and Other Functional Categories in Finnish Syntax

The architecture of the human language faculty has been one of the main foci of the linguistic research of the last half century. This branch of linguistics, broadly known as Generative Grammar, is concerned with the formulation of explanatory formal accounts of linguistic phenomena with the ulterior goal of gaining insight into the properties of the 'language organ'. The series comprises high quality monographs and collected volumes that address such issues. The topics in this series range from phonology to semantics, from syntax to information structure, from mathematical linguistics to studies of the lexicon. Preface Abbreviations and Symbols Introduction PART 1: Case Case Marking in Necessive Constructions and Split Intransitivity Of Nominative and Accusative: the Hierarchical Assignment of Grammatical Cases in Finnish On Assigning Semantic Cases in Finnish Accusative Marking in Finnish The Nature of the Accusative in Finnish The Three Structural Cases in Finnish PART 2: Other Functional Categories Are Relative Clauses either Restrictive or Non-Restrictive? A Study of Relative Clauses in the Finnish Pear Stories The structure of INFL and the Finite Clause in Finnish What Makes Finnish Different? Remarks on a Sentence Type Theory of Finnish Anaphors and Binding Domains in Finnish Index of Names Subject Index The architecture of the human language faculty has been one of the main foci of the linguistic research of the last half century. This branch of linguistics, broadly known as Generative Grammar, is concerned with the formulation of explanatory formal accounts of linguistic phenomena with the ulterior goal of gaining insight into the properties of the'language organ'. The series comprises high quality monographs and collected volumes that address such issues. The topics in this series range from phonology to semantics, from syntax to information structure, from mathematical linguistics to studies of the lexicon. To discuss your book idea or submit a proposal, please contact Birgit Sievert Edited By Anders Holmberg, Urpo Nikanne. Includes Bibliographical References And Indexes.