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- Title
The German locative-directional alternation.
- Authors
Caha, Pavel
- Abstract
I investigate the locative-directional alternation in German, expressed by the change of case on the complement of a preposition, and its consequences for the theory of case in general. I argue that oblique cases and structural cases are assigned in a uniform manner, but they are distinct in the amount of functional structure: oblique case contains structural case. Following Starke (), I claim that oblique cases can be promoted to structural cases by stranding layers of oblique case.
- Subjects
PREPOSITIONAL phrases; GERMAN language; STRUCTURALISM; OBLIQUE projection; FUNCTIONAL linguistics
- Publication
Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics, 2010, Vol 13, Issue 3, p179
- ISSN
1383-4924
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10828-010-9039-3