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| Author | : Marja-Liisa Helasvuo |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing Company |
| Total Pages | : 334 |
| Release | : 2015-01-14 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9027269181 |
Download Subjects in Constructions – Canonical and Non-Canonical Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This volume analyzes constructions with non-canonical subjects in individual languages and cross-linguistically, drawing on insights from cognitive and discourse-functional linguistics. Prototypical subjects have often been characterized in terms of their semantic, syntactic and discourse features, such as animacy, agentivity, topicality, referentiality, definiteness and autonomy of existence of the subject referent. A non-canonical subject is one that lacks some of these features. This may be reflected in its meaning, grammatical coding, and/or discourse function. In discussing non-canonical subjects in individual languages and cross-linguistically, the chapters in the volume address the following more general topics: What kinds of grammatical, semantic and discourse criteria can be used to distinguish subjects from non-subjects? To what extent are subject criteria construction-specific? What kinds of constructions have non-canonical subjects? What are the semantic and discourse functions of constructions with non-canonical subjects? Are subjects which are grammatically non-canonical also atypical in terms of their discourse features?
| Author | : Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 380 |
| Release | : 2001-01-01 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9789027229502 |
Download Non-canonical Marking of Subjects and Objects Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In some languages every subject is marked in the same way, and also every object. But there are languages in which a small set of verbs mark their subjects or their objects in an unusual way. For example, most verbs may mark their subject with nominative case, but one small set of verbs may have dative subjects, and another small set may have locative subjects. Verbs with noncanonically marked subjects and objects typically refer to physiological states or events, inner feelings, perception and cognition. The Introduction sets out the theoretical parameters and defines the properties in terms of which subjects and objects can be analysed. Following chapters discuss Icelandic, Bengali, Quechua, Finnish, Japanese, Amele (a Papuan language), and Tariana (an Amazonian language); there is also a general discussion of European languages. This is a pioneering study providing new and fascinating data, and dealing with a topic of prime theoretical importance to linguists of many persuasions.
| Author | : Ilja A. Serzant |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 392 |
| Release | : 2013-11-15 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9027271305 |
Download The Diachronic Typology of Non-Canonical Subjects Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This volume is an important contribution to the diachrony of non-canonical subjects in a typological perspective. The questions addressed concern the internal mechanisms and triggers for various changes that non-canonical subjects undergo, ranging from semantic motivations to purely structural explanations. The discussion encompasses the whole life-cycle of non-canonical subjects: from their emergence out of non-subject arguments to their expansion, demise or canonicization, focusing primarily on syntactic changes and changes in case-marking. The volume offers a number of different case studies comprising such languages as Italian, Spanish, Old Norse and Russian as well as languages less studied in this context, such as Latin, Classical Armenian, Baltic languages and some East Caucasian languages. Typological generalizations in the form of recurrent developmental paths are offered on the basis of data presented in this volume and in the literature.
| Author | : Jóhanna Barðdal |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing Company |
| Total Pages | : 288 |
| Release | : 2018-10-15 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9027263515 |
Download Non-Canonically Case-Marked Subjects Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Interest in non-canonically case-marked subjects has been unceasing since the groundbreaking work of Andrews and Masica in the late 70’s who were the first to document the existence of syntactic subjects in another morphological case than the nominative. Their research was focused on Icelandic and South-Asian languages, respectively, and since then, oblique subjects have been reported for language after language throughout the world. This newfangled recognition of the concept of oblique subjects at the time was followed by discussions of the role and validity of subject tests, discussions of the verbal semantics involved, as well as discussions of the theoretical implications of this case marking strategy of syntactic subjects. This volume contributes to all these debates, making available research articles on different languages and language families, additionally highlighting issues like language contact, differential subject marking and the origin of oblique subjects.
| Author | : Anne Mucha |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing Company |
| Total Pages | : 298 |
| Release | : 2021-09-17 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9027259585 |
Download Non-canonical Control in a Cross-linguistic Perspective Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Control, typically defined as a specific referential dependency between the null-subject of a non-finite embedded clause and a co-dependent of the matrix predicate, has been subject to extensive research in the last 50 years. While there is a broad consensus that a distinction between Obligatory Control (OC), Non-Obligatory Control (NOC) and No Control (NC) is useful and necessary to cover the range of relevant empirical phenomena, there is still less agreement regarding their proper analyses. In light of this ongoing discussion, the articles collected in this volume provide a cross-linguistic perspective on central questions in the study of control, with a focus on non-canonical control phenomena. This includes cases which show NOC or NC in complement clauses or OC in adjunct clauses, cases in which the controlled subject is not in an infinitival clause, or in which there is no unique controller in OC (i.e. partial control, split control, or other types of controllers). Based on empirical generalizations from a wide range of languages, this volume provides insights into cross-linguistic variation in the interplay of different components of control such as the properties of the constituent hosting the controlled subject, the syntactic and lexical properties of the matrix predicate as well as restrictions on the controller, thereby furthering our empirical and theoretical understanding of control in grammar.
| Author | : Artemis Alexiadou |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 369 |
| Release | : 2013-03-28 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9027272271 |
Download Non-Canonical Passives Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This volume contains a selection of papers dealing with constructions that have a passive-like interpretation but do not seem to share all the properties with canonical passives. The fifteen chapters of this volume raise important questions concerning the proper characterization of the universal properties of passivization and reflect the current discussion in this area, covering syntactic, semantic, psycho-linguistic and typological aspects of the phenomenon, from different theoretical perspectives and in different language families and backed up in most cases by extensive corpora and experimental studies.
| Author | : Mihaela Ilioaia |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
| Total Pages | : 413 |
| Release | : 2023-12-18 |
| Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
| ISBN | : 3111055620 |
Download The MIHI EST construction Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book examines the Romanian mihi est construction (Mi-e foame/frică, me.dat = is hunger/fear ‘I am hungry/ afraid’). While it disappeared from all other Romance languages to be replaced with a habeo structure, the mihi est pattern is in Romanian the most common way of expressing psychological or physiological states. By means of synchronic and diachronic corpus studies, the book investigates the status of the core arguments of the mihi est structure, i.e. the dative experiencer and the nominative state noun, as well as its evolution throughout the centuries. The data analysis reveals that the dative experiencer syntactically behaves like nominative subjects, whereas the state noun shows predicate behavior. As for the evolution of the mihi est structure, the analysis shows a certain tendency toward innovation, since in present-day Romanian it can coerce nouns coming from other semantic fields into the construction’s psychological or physiological interpretation. Could this be another unique trait of Romanian, which causes it to seemingly go against the tendency of most Romance languages toward canonical marking of core arguments?
| Author | : Geoffrey Haig |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
| Total Pages | : 388 |
| Release | : 2008 |
| Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
| ISBN | : 9783110195866 |
Download Alignment Change in Iranian Languages Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The series is a platform for contributions of all kinds to this rapidly developing field. General problems are studied from the perspective of individual languages, language families, language groups, or language samples. Conclusions are the result of a deepened study of empirical data. Special emphasis is given to little-known languages, whose analysis may shed new light on long-standing problems in general linguistics.
| Author | : Silvia Luraghi |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
| Total Pages | : 519 |
| Release | : 2014-08-29 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 311039457X |
Download Partitive Cases and Related Categories Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Argument-marking, morphological partitives have been the topic of language specific studies, while no cross-linguistic or typological analyses have been conducted. Since individual partitives of different languages have been studied, there exists a basis for a more cross-linguistic approach. The purpose of this book is to fill the gap and to bring together research on partitives in different languages.
| Author | : Peter Uhrig |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
| Total Pages | : 369 |
| Release | : 2018-06-11 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 311058980X |
Download Subjects in English Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The purpose of the book is twofold. First it tries to give a descriptive account of subjects in English. The second aim is to elucidate the status of the subject both as a concept in grammatical theory and with regard to the question whether the subject is determined by item-specific arbitrary formal restrictions in the same way as postverbal complements of the verb have been shown to be.
