Jeffrey Goldberg (J.Goldberg@cranfield.ac.uk)
Tue, 18 Jul 1995 10:32:33 +0100 (BST)
On Mon, 17 Jul 1995, Robert Beard wrote: > Jakobson suggested this long ago, although I can't recall just now > where. It might have been in 'Allgemeine Kasuslehre'. It was in one of > his papers on markedness. [...] I am aware that it is a very old suggestion (although I didn't know its precise provinance, I am not surprised), but I am not sure that it can be made for an HPSG analysis of German. The way to look for counter-examples, would be to look at instances where X assigns nominative to Y and Z assigns any other case to Y. If such a thing happens we can say (and Y appears with the non-nominative case with all such conflicts) then we have a good argument that nominative is truely the absense of case marking. (If one really didn't like that, I suppose that one could make all nominative case assignment optional, but that would require something like a case filter.) > [...] I had a reference in my new book to a recent article > suggesting the same thing, but can't find it right now. If the issue > becomes important, let me know and I'll look it up. --Bob If you wouldn't mind, it might be useful. > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Robert Beard Telephone: 717-524-1336 > Russian & Linguistics Programs Fax: 717-524-3760 > Bucknell University Lewisburg, PA 17817 > MORPHOLOGY ON INTERNET: www.bucknell.edu/~rbeard > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jeffrey Goldberg Email: J.Goldberg@Cranfield.ac.uk WWW: <http://WWW.Cranfield.ac.uk/public/cc/cc047/>
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