Overview

The chapters of this volume scrutinize the interplay of different combinations of case, animacy and semantic roles, thus contributing to our understanding of these notions in a novel way. The focus of the chapters lies on showing how animacy affects argument marking. Unlike previous studies, these chapters primarily deal with lesser studied phenomena, such as animacy effects on spatial cases and the differences between cases and adpositions in the coding of spatial relations. In addition, theoretical and diachronic issues related to case and semantic roles are also discussed; for example, what is case, how do cases develop and what are the functional differences between cases and adpositions? The chapters deal with a variety of different languages including Uralic languages, Indo-European languages, Basque, Korean and Vaeakau-Taumako. The book is appealing to anyone interested in case, animacy and/or semantic roles.

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Author:   Seppo Kittilä (University of Helsinki) ,  Katja Västi (University of Oulu & University of Helsinki) ,  Jussi Ylikoski (University of Helsinki & Sámi University College)
Publisher:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Imprint:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Volume:   99
Weight:   0.810kg
ISBN:  

9789027206800

ISBN 10:   9027206805
Pages:   354
Publication Date:   28 September 2011
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction to case, animacy and semantic roles (by Kittila, Seppo); 2. Remarks on the coding of Goal, Recipient and Vicinal Goal in European Uralic (by Kittila, Seppo); 3. A case in search of an independent life: The semantics of the initial allative in a Finnish verbless construction (by Vasti, Katja); 4. The division of labour between synonymous locative cases and adpositions: The Estonian adessive and the adposition peal 'on' (by Klavan, Jane); 5. Is there a future for the Finnish comitative?: Arguments against the putative synonymy of the comitative case -ine and the postposition kanssa (by Sirola-Belliard, Maija); 6. Animacy and spatial cases: Typological tendencies, and the case of Basque (by Creissels, Denis); 7. There's more than more animate : The Organization/Document Construction in Korean (by Song, Jae Jung); 8. The coding of spatial relations with human landmarks: From Latin to Romance (by Luraghi, Silvia); 9. A survey of the origins of directional case suffixes in European Uralic (by Ylikoski, Jussi); 10. Dutch spatial case (by Lestrade, Sander); 11. Case on the margins: Pragmatics and argument marking in Vaeakau-Taumako and beyond (by Naess, Ashild); 12. Why should beneficiaries be subjects (or objects)?: Affaction and grammatical relations (by Zuniga, Fernando)

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