GENITIVE SUBJECT LICENSING IN MODERN URDU

Genitive Subject Licensing in Uyghur Subordinate Clauses

In this paper, we analyze certain embedded clauses in Uyghur, a Turkic language spoken in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China. We argue i) that genitive case on the subjects of these clauses is licensed by agreement with a clause-external head, and ii) that these clauses are full CPs. Putting these two claims together, we have evidence that Uyghur exhibits agreement and case-assignme...

The Early Modern Genitive Its and Factors Involved in Genitive Variation

This article explores the variation between the emergent genitive its and the periphrastic form of it in Early Modern English, situating this case in the larger picture of English genitive variation. As previous studies have often focused on non-pronominal possessors (given that Present Day English pronominal possessors often appear prenominally, with limited variation), this early pronominal g...

Licensing of Instrumental Case in Hindi/Urdu Causatives

There is a long tradition in the generative literature of interpreting the presence of the by-phrase adjunct in the English passive as the signal of a ‘demoted argument’, in this case, the Agent of the corresponding active (Jaeggli 1986, Grimshaw 1990, Baker et al. 1989) or a Agent feature in the syntax (Embick 2004). In the case of Hindi/Urdu causative constructions, an instrumental se-marked ...

The Genitive of Negation in Russian: Blocking of Case-licensing by Negation

Genitive of Negation in Russian: Blocking of Case-licensing by Negation

Genitive of negation (GN) in Russian is a phenomenon in which an argument that bears structural Case in an affirmative sentence can surface bearing Genitive Case (GEN) in the corresponding negative sentence, as shown in (1). GN occurs only on Theme arguments, as shown in (2-4), and GN marked DPs refer to non-presupposed entities, whereas their structural Case-marked counterparts refer to presup...