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In:A0 – The Lexical Status of Adjectives
Edited by Phoevos Panagiotidis and Moreno Mitrović
[Language Faculty and Beyond 17] 2022
► pp. 73–120

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Adjectives, case and concord

 | Stony Brook University
Published online: 24 November 2022
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https://doi.org/10.1075/lfab.17.03lar
Article outline
  • 1Concord in grammatical theory
    • 1.1Classical A-chains
    • 1.2Features as chains
    • 1.3Features, case and concord
    • 1.4A visual analogy
    • 1.5"Lighting problems" – Core cases in DP
  • 2Case – Category mapping
    • 2.1"Transparent" Ns
    • 2.2"Opaque" As
  • 3Ezafe in Iranian languages
    • 3.1Ezafe in Iranian Persian
    • 3.2Ezafe as a case-marker
    • 3.3iPersian adjectives are not nouns
  • 4"Reverse Ezafe" in Caspian languages
    • 4.1The analysis of Reverse Ezafe
    • 4.2-ez/-rez and relative clauses
  • 5Case concord in VP?
    • 5.1Kinande "linkers"
    • 5.2Baker and Collins (2006)
    • 5.3Linkers as concordializers
    • 5.4Kinande "subnominals"
  • 6Closing thoughts
    • 6.1Case and category
    • 6.2Case and visibility
  • Notes
  • References
  • Acknowledgments
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