syntax nelson diane carlita grammatical case assignment finnish 08153 3180 0 cloth pages 65 garland publishing outstanding dissertations linguistics study presents analysis patterns morphological case finnish within principles parameters framework finnish rich system inflection case agreement making important language testing hypotheses relationships morphological case abstract case case case agreement focus study set syntactic environments internal dp arguments appear nominative case alternate accusative pronouns contexts internal arguments may also receive partitive case encode features related aspect indefiniteness environments lack external argument coindexed agreement data particularly relevant predictions made burzio generalization testing burzio hypothesis systematically range sentence types finnish shown contain ergative case subsystem within nominativeaccusative main system assignment objective cases linked licensing aspectual roles structure finite tense posited biunique case assigner case split arises result two case features assigned simultaneously internal argument objective case structure associated aspect nominative case structure associated finite tense external argument available morphological spellout rules particular argument types proposed determine surface case realization doublycase assigned nominals e mail info garland com