Case stacking below the surface
On the possessor case alternation in Udmurt
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20344119 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Anke Assmann (Leipzig University, corresponding author), Svetlana Edygarova (0000-0002-1518-0628, University of Helsinki), Dieter Georgi (0000-0003-2312-6661, Leipzig University), Doreen Georgi, Timo Klein (0000-0001-7479-6644, Leipzig University), Philipp Weisser (0000-0003-4290-1176, Leipzig University) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue | 3-4 |
| Publication date | 2014-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Linguistic Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0167-6318 • E-ISSN: 1613-3676 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/tlr-2014-0007 |
| OpenAlex | W2321020341 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
In this paper we investigate the case split on the possessor in Udmurt. Traditionally, the choice between ablative and genitive possessor case is said to be driven by the grammatical function (GF) of the XP containing the possessor. We argue that the case split is not driven by GFs; rather, it is determined by the case value of the XP that contains the possessor. Importantly, there is no evidence which points to a possessor raising analysis in Udmurt. Instead, we present an analysis according to which the possessor always bears genitive but may be assigned another structural case by an external head. Due to a morphological constraint, stacked case features fuse into a single feature set in the postsyntactic morphological component. If accusative and genitive stack on the possessor, only the default semantic case marker, i.e., the ablative marker, can realize the resulting feature set. In any other context the genitive marker is chosen. We thus claim that there is no abstract ablative on the possessor; instead, the morphological ablative marker realizes a combination of two abstract structural cases
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| Unique citing works | 10 |
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| Citations per year | 0,91 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2026 (12) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |