AMSA-146-0900
Author: Heidi Harley
Title: Abstracting away from abstract case
Citation: In Proceedings of NELS 25, Graduate Linguistics Students' Association, University of Massachusetts, Amherst (1995)

Argue that structural cases are assigned based on a hierarchical principle rather
than tied to particular syntactic positions. It is argued that the syntactic
properties of nominative objects in Icelandic demonstrate that there is
no necessary connection between structural nominative case and finite Tense.