Case, Valency and TransitivityL. I. Kulikov, Andre? L?vovich Mal?chukov, Dr Peter Swart 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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Case, Valency and Transitivity L. I. Kulikov,Andreĭ Lʹvovich Malʹchukov,Peter de Swart No preview available - 2006 |
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3rd person accusative affectedness agent alternations analysis animacy animate antipassive argument Balkar Barðdal case-marking causative constructions causee Comrie constraints control infinitives cross-linguistic dative declension demoted derived differential object marking direct object direction marking discussion distinguish encoding ergative languages examples experiencer extraversion Eythórsson formal function genitive German grammatical guages Haspelmath Hopper and Thompson Icelandic impersonal predicates inanimate indefinite interpretation intransitive ject Kaqchikel Khakas ki-passive Kittilä lexical Linguistics locative markedness marker meaning Menominee morpheme morphological nominative agreement noun phrase oblique Optimality overt PAIP paper participant patient patterns plural position postposition prepositions pronouns proper noun properties Recipient refer reflexive relevant RELP semantic semantic distinctness sentence singular speakers specific structure suffix syntactic Syntax thematic roles Theme tion tive transitive subject transitive verbs transitivization Tsimshian Tsimshian languages Turkic languages types Typology University unmarked valence verbal violation volitionality word order