Case marking on heads and at edges
Abstract
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International audience
This paper reviews the standard HPSG treatment of case as a head feature, and proposes an analysis of case in phrase-marking languages that relies on the notion of "edge" features. The paper then turns to strict head-final languages, where the simpler head feature analysis is sufficient for most constructions. Data involving coordinated structures, however, suggests that in general the edge feature mechanism is required.
International audience
This paper reviews the standard HPSG treatment of case as a head feature, and proposes an analysis of case in phrase-marking languages that relies on the notion of "edge" features. The paper then turns to strict head-final languages, where the simpler head feature analysis is sufficient for most constructions. Data involving coordinated structures, however, suggests that in general the edge feature mechanism is required.