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The Nanosyntax of Case • Pavel Caha The nanosyntax of case • Pavel Caha The nanosyntax of case Pavel Caha A dissertation for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor July 2009 UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences and Education Center for Advanced Study in Theoretical Linguistics (CASTL) July 2009 The nanosyntax of case Pavel Caha Thesis submitted to the Faculty of Humanities, University of Tromsø, July 2009 ii 0.1 Acknowledgments I would like to thank the supervisor of this thesis, Michal Starke, for help, advice and inspiration throughout my PhD studies. The same thank goes to Klaus Abels, Gillian Ramchand, Peter Sveno- nius and Tarald Taraldsen. I have spent numerous hours discussing linguistics with my fellow PhD students Bj¨orn Lundquist and Marina Pantcheva. I thank them not only for being such patient listeners – I have made much use of what they had to say. I was lucky to be part of a great PhD student community. Relevantly for the thesis, I discussed data points and linguistic issues with most of them. Irrelevantly, it was nice to hang out with you guys. I thank Monika Baˇsi´c, Kristine Bentzen, Sylvia Blaho, Eva´ D´ek´any, Madeleine Halmøy, Pavel Iosad, Peter Jurgec, Andrea M´arkus, Rosmin Mathew, Peter Muriungi, Zhenja Romanova, Dragana Surkalovi´c,ˇ Kaori Takamine, Mai Tungseth, Marleen van de Vate, Naoyuki Yamato, Islam Youssef and Christine Østbø. All the people at CASTL should be mentioned here for creating such a nice place to do linguistics. I mention especially Curt Rice and Marit Westergaard. I am indebted to Martin Kr¨ammer and Christian Uffmann for phonol- ogy discussions (among others). I am grateful to the following people for providing me with feedback on the work I was doing, or answering questions I needed to know the answer to: Marcel den Dikken, Antonio F´abregas, Berit Gehrke, Patrycja Jab lo´nska, Laura Janda, Tore Nesset, Øystein Nilsen, Andreas Pankau, Agnieszka Pysz, Danillo Reggiani, Henk van Riemsdijk and Mercedes Tubino. I thank to Joe Emonds, Petr Karl´ık and L´ıda Veselovsk´a, in particular for their help at the beginnings. I thank to my fellow Czech generative linguists spread around the world for being such a nice people to talk to, linguistics or else: Petr Biskup, Mojm´ır Doˇcekal, Linda Doleˇz´ı, Jakub Dotlaˇcil, Andrea Hoduskov´a, Ivona Kuˇcerov´a, Lucie Medov´a, Radek Sim´ık,ˇ Hanka Skrabalov´aandˇ Mark´eta Zikov´a. I thank to audiences at all the conferences I went to for feedback, as well as people at the EGG schools I took part in. Special thanks to the attendees of the Peeling lab in Tromsø. As for people outside of linguistics, I thank Marina for all her support. The last couple of months, she has managed to take care of everything so 0.1. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS iii that I can finish. I thank Miˇsa for being such a good ‘bebe.’ Last but not least, I thank my family back home for support, my mother most of all. iv Contents 0.1 Acknowledgments.......................... ii 0.2 Abstract............................... 1 0.3 Abbreviations............................ 2 I Case representation 3 1 The nanosyntax of case 5 1.1 Syncretism ............................. 5 1.2 Decomposition ........................... 17 1.3 SplitK................................ 23 1.4 Blake’shierarchy .......................... 25 1.5 Prepositions............................. 33 1.6 Containment ............................ 36 1.7 On (no) variation in case assignment . 37 1.8 Thecomputationofcase. 39 1.8.1 K-selection by functional prepositions . 40 1.8.2 K-selection in VPs: the Peeling Theory . 44 1.9 ConclusionsandProspects. 48 1.10 Appendix: Thecasesequence . 49 2 Spell out 51 2.1 Introduction............................. 51 2.2 Generatingasimpleparadigm. 52 2.3 Contiguity.............................. 56 2.4 Eliminating Fusion: Negation in Korean . 57 2.5 BundlesandFission ........................ 61 2.6 Matchingvs.Movement . 64 2.6.1 Rightbranches ....................... 64 2.6.2 Compoundcasemarking. 68 2.6.3 Left branch spell out vs. NP sub-extraction . 72 2.6.4 Intermediate branches are not ignored . 77 2.7 Embick & Marantz (2008) . 80 2.8 Anoverviewofthesystem. 82 v vi CONTENTS 2.9 TheAnchorcondition .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 89 2.10Conclusions ............................. 95 2.11Appendix .............................. 96 3 Total syncretism 97 3.1 Total syncretism in abstract terms . 97 3.2 Examplesoftotalsyncretism . 99 3.2.1 Total syncretism of nominative and accusative . 100 3.2.2 An almost total syncretism: The Northern Saami geni- tive/accusative . 100 3.2.3 A remark on non-autonomous case . 101 3.2.4 The Modern Greek genitive . 102 3.2.5 The total syncretism of dative and instrumental . 105 3.2.6 Comitatives and instrumentals . 106 3.2.7 A non-implication of total syncretism . 106 3.3 Aconceptualrefinement . 108 3.3.1 What counts as a possessor? . 110 3.3.2 CasesasZones ....................... 111 3.4 Goingfine-grained . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 112 3.4.1 ... [ partitive [ possessor ... 113 3.4.2 TheSanskritlocative . 118 3.4.3 The Slavic prepositional . 120 3.4.4 Slovenian and its “degraded” instrumental . 126 3.5 Conclusions ............................. 129 3.6 AppendixI:Theproposedfseqofcase . 129 3.7 Appendix II: Estonian grade alternations . 130 II Case computation 135 4 Peeling 137 4.1 Introduction............................. 137 4.2 Checking .............................. 138 4.3 Representation and computation . 140 4.4 ThePeelingtheory . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 142 4.5 PeelingandtheCasesequence . 148 4.5.1 Why do obliques not become genitives . 149 4.5.2 Why is nominative the smallest of cases . 152 4.6 Thespelloutofpeels .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 157 4.6.1 Identity ........................... 158 4.6.2 Non-identity . 159 4.6.3 Applicatives . 160 4.6.4 Shells spelled out as a verb . 164 4.6.5 Shells spelled out as a preposition . 167 CONTENTS vii 4.7 Caseandwordorder . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 170 4.7.1 Structuringwordorder. 171 4.7.2 The directional-locative alternation . 172 4.7.3 Linear placement correlates with case . 175 4.7.4 RaisingtoobjectinPPs. 176 4.8 Conclusion ............................. 184 5 Case Semantics 187 5.1 Introduction............................. 187 5.2 Genitives, datives, locatives and directionals . 187 5.3 Argument 1: Stative verbs . 189 5.4 Argument2: Dynamicverbs. 190 5.5 Argument3: Chameleons . 191 5.5.1 The Czech locative-dirtectional chameleon . 191 5.5.2 The Czech genitive-dative chameleon . 195 5.5.3 The chameleon meeting . 202 5.6 Conclusions ............................. 203 6 Conclusions 205 III Case studies 209 7 Classical Armenian 211 7.1 Introduction............................. 211 7.2 Casesyncretism........................... 212 7.3 CaseandNumber ......................... 214 7.4 Classmarkers............................ 216 7.5 Derivingtheorderofmorphemes . 218 7.6 Packaging and Splitting . 220 7.7 -n-stems .............................. 222 7.8 On phonological conflation . 228 7.9 Summingup ............................ 231 8 Defending the Universal Contiguity 233 8.1 Kindsofhomophonies . 234 8.2 Whereweare............................ 235 8.3 MoreofSlavic............................ 237 8.3.1 Serbian ........................... 237 8.3.2 Slovene ........................... 240 8.3.3 Syncretism in Czech . 244 8.3.4 Ukrainian .......................... 268 8.3.5 SummingupSlavic. 271 8.4 Germanic .............................. 272 viii CONTENTS 8.4.1 Syncretisms in Old English Nouns . 272 8.4.2 Troubleswithpronouns . 273 8.4.3 PossessorsofSELF. 278 8.4.4 German ........................... 282 8.5 Latin................................. 287 8.6 Classical Armenian revisited . 290 8.7 Summingup ............................ 292 9 Open ends 295 9.1 Agreement.............................. 295 9.2 Keenan-Comrie relativization hierarchy . 296 9.3 Gapsinthesequence. 298 References 303 0.2. ABSTRACT 1 0.2 Abstract This dissertation proposes a new approach to case. It unifies its syntax, mor- phology and semantics in a simple, fine-grained and restrictive picture. One of the assumptions frequently made in works on case is that cases such as nominative and accusative are not primitive entities, but they are each composed of various features. The central hypothesis of this dissertation is that these features are universal, and each of them is its own terminal node in the syntactic tree. Individual cases thus correspond to phrasal constituents built out of these terminals. The idea that syntactic trees are built by Merge from individual atomic features is one of the core principles of a cartographic approach to syntax pursued by M. Starke: Nanosyntax. Hence “The nanosyntax of case.” I motivate the approach on the material of case syncretism. I propose a hypothesis according to which case syncretism across various languages obeys a single restrictive template. The template corresponds to a cross-linguistically fixed sequence of cases, in which only adjacent cases show syncretism. In order to derive this, I argue that case features are syntactic heads, ordered in a universal functional sequence. If this is so, it follows that these sub-morphemic features interact with core syntactic processes, such as movement. The prediction is borne out: the in- teraction of (phrasal) movement and the fine-grained syntactic representation derives a typological generalization concerning cross-linguistic variation in the amount of case marking (Blake’s hierarchy). Additional facts fall out from the picture: the role of functional preposi- tions, prepositional syncretism, case compounding, and preposition stacking. I further
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