TY  - CHAP
A1  - Svenonius, Peter
T1  - Case and event structure
T2  - Syntax of predication : proceedings of the Workshop on Syntax of Predication, Nov. 2 - 3, 2001, ZAS-Berlin, Ed. by Niina Zhang, Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung, Berlin, 2000; ZAS papers in linguistics Vol. 26
N2  - I argue in this paper for a novel analysis of case in Icelandic, with implications for case theory in general. I argue that structural case is the manifestation on the noun phrase of features which are semantically interpretable only on verbal projections; thus, Icelandic case does not encode features of noun phrase interpretation, but it is not uninterpretable either; case is properly seen as reflecting (interpretable) tense and aspect features. Accusative case in Icelandic is available when the two subevents introduced in a transitive verb phrase are identified with each other, and dative case is available when the two parts are distinct (thus Icelandic case manifests aktionsart or inner aspect, in partial contrast to Finnish). This analysis bears directly on the theory of feature checking in the Minimalist Program; specifically, it paves the way for a restrictive theory of feature checking in which no features are strictly uninterpretable: all formal features come in interpretable-uninterpretable pairs, and feature checking is the matching of such pairs, driven by legibility conditions at Spell-Out.
KW  - Isländisch
KW  - Syntax
KW  - Kasus
Y1  - 2001
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/30827
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-308279
UR  - http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/fileadmin/material/ZASPiL_Volltexte/zp26/zaspil26-svenonius.pdf
SN  - 1435-9588
SN  - 0947-7055
N1  - Originalseitenzählung 197-217 (siehe auch http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-379707).
VL  - 26
PB  - Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung
CY  - Berlin
ER  -