Coordination of prepositions that require different values of case

Agnieszka Patejuk

Keywords: coordination, case, syncretism

Abstract: This paper offers an LFG analysis of a coordination phenomenon occuring in Polish, where two (or more) prepositions requiring different cases can be coordinated, but their shared nominal complement bears case that is appropriate only for one of the prepositions: the closest one. This phenomenon presents an interesting challenge to existing analyses of case as it cannot be explained by case syncretism: the shared object cannot be interpreted as being marked for each of the cases required by the coordinated prepositions.

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Submission Number: 23