Linguistic Typology and the Demise of Morphological Case: The Development of the Genitive in the Germanic Languages

语言类型学与形态格的消亡：日耳曼语言属格的发展。这个项目将研究日耳曼语言的格标记系统的变化如何影响最初由属格编码的关系的表达。将收集有关荷兰语和英语变化的新数据。然后，研究将扩展到其他日耳曼语言。该项目的一个主要目的是提出一个案例研究如何密切相关的语言可以显着分歧，而经历了类似的转变，从一个整体？类型？另一方面，增加了我们对人类语言能力在跨代语言传播中允许的变化的理解。

Linguistic Typology and the Demise of Morphological Case: The Development of the Genitive in the Germanic Languages. This project will investigate how changes to the case marking systems of the Germanic languages affected the expression of the relationships originally encoded by genitive case. New data will be gathered concerning changes in Dutch and English. The investigation will then be extended to the other Germanic languages. A primary aim of the project is to present a case study of how closely related languages can diverge significantly while undergoing a similar shift from one overall ?type? to another, adding to our understanding of what sort of changes the human language capability allows in the transmission of language across generations.