Overview

The three concepts of case, valency and transitivity belong to the most discussed topics of modern linguistics. On the one hand, they are crucially connected with morphological aspects of the clause, including case marking, person agreement and voice. On the other hand, they are related to several semantic issues such as the meaning of case, semantico-syntactic verbal classes, and the semantic correlates of transitivity. The volume unifies papers written within different theoretical frameworks and representing variegated approaches (Optimality Theory, Government and Binding, various versions of the Functional approach, Cross-linguistic and Typological analyses), containing both numerous new findings in individual languages and valuable observations and generalizations related to case, valency and transitivity.

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Author:   Leonid Kulikov (Leiden University) ,  Andrej L. Malchukov (Radboud University Nijmegen) ,  Peter Swart (Radboud University Nijmegen)
Publisher:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Imprint:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Volume:   77
Weight:   1.050kg
ISBN:  

9789027230874

ISBN 10:   9027230870
Pages:   503
Publication Date:   15 November 2006
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction; 2. Part I. Morphological case; 3. Syntactic vs. morphological case: Implications for morphosyntax (by Spencer, Andrew); 4. Case systems in a diachronic perspective: A typological sketch (by Kulikov, Leonid); 5. Emergence of morphological cases in South Mande: From the amorphous type to inflectional? (by Vydrin, Valentin); 6. Issues of morphological ergativity in the Tsimshian languages: Agreement, determiners and the reconstruction of case (by Peterson, Tyler); 7. Direction marking and case in Menominee (by Trommer, Jochen); 8. Part II. Case-marking and transitivity; 9. A. Syntax of case; 10. Bare and prepositional differential case marking: The exotic case of German (and Icelandic) among all of Germanic (by Abraham, Werner); 11. Control infinitives and case in Germanic: 'Performance error' or marginally acceptable constructions? (by Barddal, Johanna); 12. Experiencer coding in Nakh-Daghestanian (by Ganenkov, Dmitry); 13. 'Argument sharing' in Oriya serial verb constructions (by Sahoo, Kalyanamalini); 14. B. Case interpretation; 15. Two approaches to specificity (by Johanson, Lars); 16. Case markedness (by Swart, Peter de); 17. Incremental distinguishability of subject and object (by Hoop, Helen de); 18. C. Case and the typology of transitivity; 19. The woman showed the baby to her sister: On resolving humanness-driven ambiguity in ditransitives (by Kittila, Seppo); 20. Case semantics and the agent-patient opposition (by Naess, Ashild); 21. Transitivity parameters and transitivity alternations: Constraining co-variation (by Malchukov, Andrej); 22. Transitivity in Songhay (by Galiamina, Julia); 23. Part III. Transitivity and valency change; 24. Syntactic valence, information structure, and passive constructions in Kaqchikel (by Broadwell, George Aaron); 25. A very active passive: Functional similarities between passive and causative in Balkar (by Lyutikova, Ekaterina); 26. Case marking, possession and syntactic hierarchies in Khakas causative constructions in comparison with other Turkic languages (by Letuchiy, Alexander); 27. Transitivity increase markers interacting with verbs semantics: Evidence from Finno-Ugric languages (by Kalinina, Elena); 28. Extraversive transitivization in Yucatec Maya and the nature of the applicative (by Lehmann, Christian); 29. Language Index; 30. Subject Index

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