Argument structure and grammatical relations : a crosslinguistic typology

✍ Scribed by Suihkonen, Pirkko; Comrie, Bernard; Solovʹev, Valeriĭ

• Publisher: John Benjamins
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 423
• Series: Studies in language companion series 126
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book is a collection of articles dealing with various aspects of grammatical relations and argument structure in the languages of Europe and North and Central Asia (LENCA). Topics covered with respect to individual languages are: split-intransitivity (Basque), causativization (Agul), transitives and causatives (Korean and Japanese), aspectual domain and quantification (Finnish and Udmurt), head-marking principles (Athabaskan languages), and pragmatics (Eastern Khanty and Xibe). Typology of argument-structure properties of 'give' (LENCA), typology of agreement systems, asymmetry in argumen.  Read more...

✦ Table of Contents

Argument Structure and Grammatical Relations
Editorial page
Title page
LCC data
Table of contents
The editors
The authors
Preface
Introduction
A deceptive case of split-intransitivity in Basque
1. Introduction
2. The absolute construction in Romance
3. The absolute construction in Basque
4. Reduced relative clauses in Romance
5. Reduced relative clauses in Basque
6. Conclusion
Abbreviations
References
Some argument-structure properties of 'give' in the languages of Europe and Northern and Central Asia
1. Introduction. 2. Dominance of the indirect object construction in the languages of Europe and Northern and Central Asia3. Syntactic primacy and ditransitive constructions
3.1 Indexing of the object in the verb
3.2 Advancement to subject under passivization
3.3 Constituent order
3.4 Suppletion
4. Conclusions
Abbreviations
References
Grammatical relations in a typology of agreement systems
1. Introduction
2. The rise of grammatical relations
3. Early ideas on grammatical relations and agreement
4. Problems with grammatical relations
4.1 Brother-in-law' agreement
4.2 Back' agreement. 4.3 Possessor phrases5. A typology of agreement using grammatical relations
5.1 Thematic roles
5.2 Communicative functions
6. The role of case
7. Conclusion
Abbreviations
References
Causatives in Agul
1. Introduction
2. Formal types
2.1 Periphrastic 'do'-causatives
2.1.1 Lexical distribution
2.1.2 Case assignment
2.1.3 A note on apudelative
2.1.4 Syntax and morphosyntax
2.1.5 More on case marking of the Causee
2.2 Compound 'do'-causatives
2.2.1 Adjectives
2.2.2 Nouns and bound stems
2.2.3 Statives
2.2.4 Non-stative verbs
2.2.5 Morphosyntax. 2.2.6 Do'-compounds: an overview2.3 Labile verbs
2.3.1 Intransitive labile or prodrop?
2.3.2 Semantics
2.3.3 Labile derivation
2.4 Lexical causatives
2.5 Semantically irregular causatives
3. Semantic contrasts
4. Overview and east caucasian perspective
Abbreviations
References
Continuity of information structuring strategies in Eastern Khanty
1. Introduction
2. Overview of the prototypical clause features
2.1 Word order
2.2 Argument structure
3. Information structuring
4. Possessive markers and information structuring
4.1 O-V (objective) conjugation. 4.1.1 Structure and motivating factors4.1.2 Word order/syntactic flexibility
4.1.3 Control over reflexivization
4.1.4 O-Focus clauses, Q/A sequences
4.2 Embedded non-finite clauses
5. Conclusion
Abbreviations
References
Patterns of asymmetry in argument structure across languages
1. Introduction
2. Hierarchies
3. Preliminaries
4. Minimize domains
5. Minimize forms
6. Maximize on-line processing
7. Conclusions
Abbreviations
References
Topic marking and the construction of narrative in Xibe
1. Introduction
2. The particle da
2.1 Candidate position #1.

✦ Subjects

Grammar, Comparative and general -- Ergative constructions;Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax;Generative grammar;Typology (Linguistics);Language and languages;LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Grammar & Punctuation;LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Syntax