Andere Kunden interessierten sich auch für
![Finnish]( "Finnish")
Finnish385,99 €![Representation of a politician in Finnish media: a case study]( "Representation of a politician in Finnish media: a case study")
Representation of a politician in Finnish media: a case study32,99 €![The Register-Functional Approach to Grammatical Complexity]( "The Register-Functional Approach to Grammatical Complexity")
The Register-Functional Approach to Grammatical Complexity198,99 €![Grammatical Features and the Acquisition of Reference]( "Grammatical Features and the Acquisition of Reference")
Grammatical Features and the Acquisition of Reference176,99 €![A Dictionary of Grammatical Terms in Linguistics]( "A Dictionary of Grammatical Terms in Linguistics")
A Dictionary of Grammatical Terms in Linguistics198,99 €![English suffixes]( "English suffixes")
English suffixes134,20 €![The Finnish Case System]( "The Finnish Case System")
The Finnish Case System30,99 €
This study presents an analysis of morphological case in Finnish within the Principles and Parameters framework. Finnish has a rich system of inflection for both case and agreement, making it an important language for testing hypotheses about the relationships between morphological case and abstract Case, and Case/case and agreement. The focus of the study is a set of syntactic environments where internal DP arguments appear in nominative case, but alternate with accusative personal pronouns. Because these environments lack an external argument coindexed with agreement, the data is particularly relevant to predictions made by Burzio's Generalization. By testing the generalization against a range of sentence types, Finnish is shown to contain an ergative split within an accusative main system. The assignment of the objective cases, accusative and partitive, is linked with the licensing of aspectual roles at D-structure, and finite Tense posited as a bi-unique Case assigner. The case split then arises as the result of two case features being assigned simultaneously to an internal argument, objective Case at D-structure associated with aspect, and nominative Case at S-structure associated with finite Tense where an external argument is not available. Morphological spell-out rules for particular argument types are proposed which determine the surface case realization of doubly-case assigned nominals.