Optional and alternating case marking: Typology and diachrony
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This paper presents a survey of the typology and diachrony of optional and alternating case marking, in the context of related phenomena such as referent-and construction-based splits. While there is much recent work in this area, driven by text-based approaches to language description, as well as quantitative and areal approaches to typology, the domain remains somewhat scattered, conceptually and terminologically. We chart the relevant phenomena, and provide a typological survey of optional and alternating marking for A and O arguments. We also highlight some of the questions that remain, including problems with the classic
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