This paper examines plural suppletion in the Barguzin dialect of Buryat (Mongolic, Russia), which occurs only accusative and genitive noun phrases. The restricted distribution this process, specifically its absence oblique cases, is significant for recent research on typology feature structure case. For much work vein, would qualify as having an ‘ABA’ pattern, predicted to be unattested. I argu...

Abstract This paper addresses the syntactic and semantic analysis of nominal measurement structures like two liters black coffee in German. German allows case-marking on substance noun phrase to vary: it can appear genitive case or same as measure liter . The choice lacks import with absolute measures , but a distinction does arise for proportional percent interpretation case-matching configura...

While the choice of morphological markers is lexically determined and highly idiosyncratic – fahren/Fahrt (drive/drive) vs. erklären/Erklärung (explain/explanation)-, syntactic combination follows general rules: the verb assigns nominative and accusative case to the subject and direct object, the derived noun systematically requires genitive case for both complements. These observations exhaust...

Abstract This paper deals with word-order variation in a situation of language contact. We present corpus-based investigation word order the variety Russian spoken Daghestan, focusing specifically on noun phrases genitive modifier. In Daghestanian Russian, nonstandard GEN+N (prepositive or left genitive) often occurs. At first glance, this phenomenon might be easily explained terms syntactic ca...

The debate about the meaning of Pauline phrase pistis Christou focuses on syntax. If genitive case is subjective then it rendered “faith(fulness) Christ”, if objective, “faith in Christ”. This article examines occurrence Philippians 3:9 from a reader-response perspective to determine difference between and objective reading could have led different understanding by Philippians. will be treated ...