Case, Valency and TransitivityLeonid Kulikov, Andrej Malchukov, Peter de 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,Andre? L?vovich Mal?chukov,Dr Peter Swart Limited preview - 2006 |
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 analysis animacy animate argument Balkar BarOdal case-marking causative constructions causee Comrie conflict constraints control infinitives cross-linguistic DAT;NOM dative declension defined definite demoted derived diflerence direct object direction marking discussion distinguish encoding ergative languages examples experiencer extraversion Eythorsson final find first fish function genitive German grammatical guages Haspelmath Hopper and Thompson Icelandic impersonal predicates inanimate indefinite inflectional interpretation intransitive Iuan ject Kaqchikel Khakas ki-passive lexical Linguistics locative Mande languages markedness marker meaning Menominee morpheme morphological nominative agreement non-specific object marking oblique Optimality PAIP participant passive patient patterns plural postposition prepositions pronouns properties Recipient refer reflect reflexive relevant RelP role semantic sentence specific structure 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