Stacking ” and the Structural / Inherent Case Distinction
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It seems to be cross-linguistically fairly common for morphology added to DPs that are already inflected for Case to interact in different ways with structural and inherent case morphology. Such morphology is often required to replace structural case morphemes, while DPs with inherent case either cannot receive the morphology at all or simply add it on top of the existing inherent case morpheme. The Japanese Topic marker wa offers one instance of this. It obligatorily replaces Nominative or Accusative case, but occurs freely after other case morphemes and postpositions: (1) a. Taroo-(*ga/o)-wa Taroo NOM/ACC TOP b. Taroo-(ni/ kara)-wa Taroo DAT from TOP Russian Genitive of Negation behaves in an arguably similar way. Genitive of negation replaces structural case morphology (Nominative, Accusative) on the DPs to which it is applied, while it cannot affect DPs with inherent case (Pesetsky 1982, Babyonyshev et al 2001, Partee and Borschev 2006):
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