none 10.1075/la.77 John Benjamins Publishing Company John Benjamins Publishing Company 1757 66132648 1420238 1420043 202507022241000027 10.1075 2025-07-02T16:40:16Z 2013-12-16T17:32:07Z 73 0166-0829 10.1075/la https://benjamins.com/ catalog/la Balkız Öztürk Bogazici University https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3626-5890 This book proposes that the two “independent” conditions on argumenthood, namely, case and referentiality, are strongly correlated and have to be associated with each other in syntax as syntactic features. It shows that languages exhibit variation in the way this association is implemented in their syntax, which presents an explanation for the differences observed in their phrase structure in terms of (non-)configurationality. Thus, this book not only presents an innovative overarching theory for case and referentiality, but also aims to bring a new look at the issues of (non-)configurationality. It specifically argues for parameterization of functional categories associated with case and referentiality, which has certain implications not only for the acquisition but also for the diachronic development of functional categories. Providing rich comparative data from typologically different languages such as Turkish, Chinese, Hungarian, English and Japanese, this book is of particular interest to typologists as well. 77 4 26 2005 7 1 2008 9789027228017 9781588116451 9789027294456 John Benjamins Publishing Company Amsterdam 10.1075/la.77 http://www.jbe-platform.com/content/books/9789027294456 https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1075/la.77/html https://www.jbe-platform.com/deliver/fulltext/9789027294456.pdf