Case: abstract vs. morphological

Abstract

This paper explores the consequences of the universalist view of case. It argues, first, that all languages have the same set of deep cases, second, that morphological case is a PF exponent that basically has a distinctiveness function (like other PF elements) and not the function of ‘making sense’, and, third, that case is matched vP-internally, DPs thereby becoming amenable/visible to movement out of vP for the purpose of matching other features than case, most importantly Person.

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