TY - JOUR
T1 - Optional and alternating case marking
T2 - Typology and diachrony
AU - Chappell, Hilary
AU - Verstraete, Jean Christophe
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 John Wiley & Sons Ltd
PY - 2019/3
Y1 - 2019/3
N2 - This paper presents a survey of the typology and diachrony of optional and alternating case marking, in the context of related phenomena such as referent- and construction-based splits. While there is much recent work in this area, driven by text-based approaches to language description, as well as quantitative and areal approaches to typology, the domain remains somewhat scattered, conceptually and terminologically. We chart the relevant phenomena, and we provide a typological survey of optional and alternating marking for A and O arguments. We also highlight some of the questions that remain, including problems with the classic model of case marking based on markedness reversal. A final section investigates the diachronic origins of optional case markers. These are largely similar to those for non-optional systems, apart from certain source domains, as well as factors related to information structure, both in the form of source domains and as constructional contexts playing a role in the development of the markers.
AB - This paper presents a survey of the typology and diachrony of optional and alternating case marking, in the context of related phenomena such as referent- and construction-based splits. While there is much recent work in this area, driven by text-based approaches to language description, as well as quantitative and areal approaches to typology, the domain remains somewhat scattered, conceptually and terminologically. We chart the relevant phenomena, and we provide a typological survey of optional and alternating marking for A and O arguments. We also highlight some of the questions that remain, including problems with the classic model of case marking based on markedness reversal. A final section investigates the diachronic origins of optional case markers. These are largely similar to those for non-optional systems, apart from certain source domains, as well as factors related to information structure, both in the form of source domains and as constructional contexts playing a role in the development of the markers.
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U2 - 10.1111/lnc3.12311
DO - 10.1111/lnc3.12311
M3 - Article
SN - 1749-818X
VL - 13
JO - Linguistics and Language Compass
JF - Linguistics and Language Compass
IS - 3
M1 - e12311
ER -