Table of contents
Acknowledgementsxi
Key to abbreviationsxii
Introduction1
1. The history of the English case system8
2. Formal approaches to case and the three case constraints26
3. Case and the weak/strong distinction in the English pronoun system65
4. The empirical survey78
5. The survey results101
6. Relative Positional Coding and the Invariant Strong Form constraints148
7. Modelling the interaction of the constraints178
8. The distribution of personal pronoun forms in other strong pronoun contexts201
9. The distribution of wh-pronoun forms in Modern English310
10. Speculations and conclusions370
References384
Name index398
Subject index402
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