Voice And Argument Structure In Baltic

Author : Axel Holvoet,Nicole Nau
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027267955

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Voice and Argument Structure in Baltic by Axel Holvoet,Nicole Nau Pdf

The second volume in the VARGReB series deals with voice in the wider sense, encompassing both alternations that preserve semantic valency, with passives as the most typical instance, and valency-changing devices such as the causative. Regarding the former, special attention is given to event-structural conditions on passivization, non-canonical passives, and the relation between passives and (active) impersonals. Papers dealing with causatives focus on valency patterns and argument marking in canonical as well as extended uses of causative morphology. Other articles consider converse constructions and the argument structure of middles, which seem to hold a position between voice in the narrow sense and valency-changing operations. An introductory article provides background information on the repertoire of voice alternations in Baltic from a cross-linguistic perspective. Representing different approaches and methods, the contributions to this volume offer fine-grained analyses of data from contemporary Latvian and Lithuanian.

Author : Axel Holvoet
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027261083

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The Middle Voice in Baltic by Axel Holvoet Pdf

The fifth volume in the VARGReB series is a monograph presenting a collection of studies on middle-voice grams in Baltic, that is, on a widely ramified family of constructions with different syntactic and semantic properties but sharing a morphological marker of reflexive origin. Though the emphasis is on Baltic, ample attention is given to other languages as well, especially to Slavonic. The book offers many new insights into questions of syntactic and semantic interpretation, correct demarcation and diachronic explanation of middle-voice grams. The relationship between reflexive and middle, the workings of metonymy, changes in syntactic structure and lexical input as factors determining diachronic shifts within the middle-voice domain and transitions from one middle-voice gram to another – these are among the topics discussed in the book, which, beyond its relevance to Baltic and Slavonic scholarship, is also a contribution to the typology of the middle voice.

Author : Axel Holvoet,Nicole Nau
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027267535

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Argument Realization in Baltic by Axel Holvoet,Nicole Nau Pdf

The third volume in the VARGReB series explores different aspects of varying argument realization in Baltic. It presents original studies on differential marking of both core and non-core verbal arguments, on argument structures of nouns and the encoding of nominal arguments, as well as on constructions reflecting the expansion of argument structure through the addition of causative, resultative or applicative predications. The discussion of phenomena of argument realization and marking often touches on fundamental problems of syntax and the syntax-semantics interface, such as the putative locality of case assignment, event-structural factors determining case marking, the inheritance of argument structure across phrase types, or the status of arguments and adjuncts. The contributions to this volume use different approaches and frameworks to analyze a wealth of authentic data from contemporary Latvian and Lithuanian.

Author : Peter Arkadiev,Axel Holvoet,Björn Wiemer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110343953

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Contemporary Approaches to Baltic Linguistics by Peter Arkadiev,Axel Holvoet,Björn Wiemer Pdf

This book is a collection of articles dealing with various aspects of the Baltic languages (Lithuanian, Latvian and Latgalian), which have only marginally featured in the discourse of theoretical linguistics and linguistic typology. The aim of the book is to bridge the gap between the study of the Baltic languages, on the one hand, and the current agenda of the theoretical and typological approaches to language, on the other. The book comprises 13 articles dealing with various aspects of phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, lexicon, and their interactions, plus a lengthy introduction, whose aim is to outline the state of the art in the research on the Baltic languages. The contributions are data-driven, being based on field-work, corpus research, and data published in the sources not accessible to the general linguistic audience. On the other hand, all contributions are informed in the relevant contemporary linguistic theories and in the advances of linguistic typology. Some of the contributions aim at a more detailed, accurate and theoretically informed description of the data, others look at the Baltic material from a more theoretical point of view, still others assume an areal-typological or contact perspective.

Author : Guglielmo Inglese
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 654 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004432307

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The Hittite Middle Voice by Guglielmo Inglese Pdf

In this book, Inglese offers a new description of the middle voice in Hittite, both from a synchronic and a diachronic perspective. The analysis is based on a corpus of original Hittite texts and is framed within current trends in linguistic typology.

Author : Walter Bisang,Andrej Malchukov
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110560442

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Grammaticalization Scenarios from Europe and Asia by Walter Bisang,Andrej Malchukov Pdf

This volume intends to fill the gap in the grammaticalization studies setting as its goal the systematic description of grammaticalization processes in genealogically and structurally diverse languages. To address the problem of the limitations of the secondary sources for grammaticalization studies, the editors rely on sketches of grammaticalization phenomena from experts in individual languages guided by a typological questionnaire.

Author : Fernando Zúñiga,Seppo Kittilä
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781107159242

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Grammatical Voice by Fernando Zúñiga,Seppo Kittilä Pdf

The first ever textbook devoted to the cross-linguistic study of voice, covering various topics and discussing data from numerous languages.

Author : Silvia Luraghi,Elisa Roma
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110755718

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Valency over Time by Silvia Luraghi,Elisa Roma Pdf

Valency patterns and valency orientation have been frequent topics of research under different perspectives, often poorly connected. Diachronic studies on these topics is even less systematic than synchronic ones. The papers in this book bring together two strands of research on valency, i.e. the description of valency patterns as worked out in the Leipzig Valency Classes Project (ValPaL), and the assessment of a language's basic valency and its possible orientation. Notably, the ValPaL does not provide diachronic information concerning the valency patterns investigated: one of the aims of the book is to supplement the available data with data from historical stages of languages, in order to make it profitably exploitable for diachronic research. In addition, new research on the diachrony of basic valency and valency alternations can deepen our understanding of mechanisms of language change and of the propensity of languages or language families to exploit different constructional patterns related to transitivity.

Author : Eystein Dahl
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780198857907

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Alignment and Alignment Change in the Indo-European Family by Eystein Dahl Pdf

This volume brings together work from leading specialists in Indo-European languages to explore the macro- and micro-dynamic factors that contribute to variation and change in alignment and argument realization. Alignment is taken to include both basic alignment patterns associated with major construction types, as well as various valency-decreasing constructions such as passives, anticausatives, and impersonals. The chapters explore synchronic and diachronic aspects of alignment morphosyntax based on data from Anatolian, Indo-Iranian, Greek, Italic, Armenian, and Slavic. All have a strong empirical focus, drawing on both qualitative and quantitative methods, and range from broad comparative studies to detailed investigations of specific constructions in individual languages. The book is one of very few studies to examine variation and change in alignment typology across languages in a single family. It contributes to a greater understanding of the roles played by analogy/extension, reanalysis, and areal factors in alignment change, and demonstrates the extent of variation found in the morphosyntax of argument realization in genetically-related languages.

Author : Björn Wiemer,Juana I. Marin-Arrese
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 714 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110726114

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Evidential Marking in European Languages by Björn Wiemer,Juana I. Marin-Arrese Pdf

How are evidential functions distinguished by means other than grammatical paradigms, i.e. by function words and other lexical units? And how inventories of such means can be compared across languages (against an account also of grammatical means used to mark information source)? This book presents an attempt at supplying a comparative survey of such inventories by giving detailed “evidential profiles” for a large part of European languages: Continental Germanic, English, French, Basque, Russian, Polish, Lithuanian, Modern Greek, and Ibero-Romance languages, such as Catalán, Galician, Portuguese and Spanish. Each language is treated in a separate chapter, and their profiles are based on a largely unified set of concepts based on function and/or etymological provenance. The profiles are preceded by a chapter which clarifies the theoretical premises and methodological background for the format followed in the profiles. The concluding chapter presents a synthesis of findings from these profiles, including areal biases and the formulation of methodological problems that call for further research.

Author : Zlatka Guentchéva
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110569889

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Epistemic Modalities and Evidentiality in Cross-Linguistic Perspective by Zlatka Guentchéva Pdf

This volume explores phenomena which come under the heading of epistemic modalities and evidentiality in more or less well-known languages (Germanic, Romance, Balto-Slavic, Hungarian, Tibetan, Lakandon and Yucatec Maya, Arwak-Chibchan Kogi and Ika). It reveals cross-linguistic variations in the structuring of these vast fields of enquiry and clearly demonstrates the relevance and interplay of multiple factors involved in the analysis of these two conceptual domains. Although the contributions present diverging descriptive traditions, they are nonetheless within the broad domain of functional-typological linguistics and give access to distinct yet comparable approaches. They all converge around a number of key issues: modal verbs; the relationship between epistemic modality and evidentiality; the relationship of modal notions with some tense and aspect notions; the notions of (inter)subjectivity, commitment and (dis)engagement; the prosodic variation of modal adverbs, the diachronic connections between negation and evidential markers, the connection with mirativity. The volume is of interest to linguists and advanced graduate students working in general and theoretical linguistics, semantics, pragmatics, cognition, and typology.

Author : Robert Crellin,Thomas Jügel
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 702 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027260901

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Perfects in Indo-European Languages and Beyond by Robert Crellin,Thomas Jügel Pdf

This volume provides a detailed investigation of perfects from all the branches of the Indo-European language family, in some cases representing the first ever comprehensive description. Thorough philological examinations result in empirically well-founded analyses illustrated with over 940 examples. The unique temporal depth and diatopic breadth of attested Indo-European languages permits the investigation of both TAME (Tense-Aspect-Mood-Evidentiality) systems over time and recurring cycles of change, as well as synchronic patterns of areal distribution and contact phenomena. These possibilities are fully exploited in the volume. Furthermore, the cross-linguistic perspective adopted by many authors, as well as the inclusion of contributions which go beyond the boundaries of the Indo-European family per se, facilitates typological comparison. As such, the volume is intended to serve as a springboard for future research both into the semantics of the perfect in Indo-European itself, and verb systems across the world’s languages.

Author : Axel Holvoet,Nicole Nau
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027270399

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Grammatical Relations and their Non-Canonical Encoding in Baltic by Axel Holvoet,Nicole Nau Pdf

This is the first of three volumes dealing with clausal architecture, grammatical relations, case-marking and the syntax–semantics interface in Baltic. It focuses on the grammatical relations of subject and object and the viability of these notions in languages like Lithuanian and Latvian, which have a rich case morphology and show many deviations from the canonical nominative-accusative pattern of case-marking. The issues examined include differential object marking, subjecthood in specificational copular constructions, ‘swarm’-type alternations and what they tell us about grammatical relations, special types of subject and object marking in non-finite clauses, and non-canonical grammatical relations induced by modal predicates. One study provides a comparative outlook towards Icelandic, another language noted for its complex marking of grammatical relations. The articles in the volume represent various theoretical frameworks.

Author : Saartje Verbeke
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004346789

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Argument structure in Kashmiri by Saartje Verbeke Pdf

In Argument structure in Kashmiri Saartje Verbeke studies the patterns of grammatical relations in the Indo-Aryan language Kashmiri, including case marking and verb agreement, from a typological point of view.

Author : John Xiros Cooper
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015012834233

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T.S. Eliot and the Politics of Voice by John Xiros Cooper Pdf