Resolving (DAT = ACC) ≠ GEN

Abstract

The traditional notion of case is too coarse to distinguish between the English prepositional dative and the English shifted dative, the Spanish bare accusative and the Spanish “a” accusative, etc. I show that refining our typology of case to include such distinctions resolves a *ABA counterexample to Caha’s 2009 case hierarchy and I discuss where these new distinctions should be placed in the underlying representation of case.