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Title

Case, animacy and semantic roles / edited by Seppo Kittilä, Katja Västi, Jussi Ylikoski.

Publication

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2011.

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Additional Authors

• Kittilä, Seppo.
• Västi, Katja.
• Ylikoski, Jussi.

Description

354 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Summary

"The chapters of this volume scrutinize the interplay of different combinations of case, animacy and semantic roles, thus contributing to our understanding of these notions in a novel way. The focus of the chapters lies on showing how animacy affects argument marking. Unlike previous studies, these chapters primarily deal with lesser studied phenomena, such as animacy effects on spatial cases and the differences between cases and adpositions in the coding of spatial relations. In addition, theoretical and diachronic issues related to case and semantic roles are also discussed; for example, what is case, how do cases develop and what are the functional differences between cases and adpositions? The chapters deal with a variety of different languages including Uralic languages, Indo-European languages, Basque, Korean and Vaeakau-Taumako. The book is appealing to anyone interested in case, animacy and/or semantic roles."--Publisher's website.

Series Statement

Typological studies in language ; 99

Uniform Title

Typological studies in language; v. 99.

Subject

• Grammar, Comparative and general > Case
• Grammar, Comparative and general > Animacy
• Semantics
• Beliebtheit
• Grammatik
• Kasus
• Semantik

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction to case, animacy and semantic roles / Seppo Kittilä, Katja Västi and Jussi Ylikoski -- Remarks on the coding of goal, recipient and vicinal goal in European Uralic / Seppo Kittilä and Jussi Ylikoski -- A case in search of an independent life: the semantics of the initial allative in a Finnish verbless construction / Katja Västi -- The division of labour between synonymous locative cases and adpositions: the Estonian adessive and the adposition peal 'on' / Jane Klavan, Kaisa Kesküla and Laura Ojava -- Is there a future for the Finnish comitative?: arguments against the putative synonymy of the comitative case -ine and the postposition kanssa / Maija Sirola-Belliard -- Animacy and spatial cases: typological tendencies, and the case of Basque / Denis Creissels and Céline Mounole -- There's more than "more animate": the organization/document construction in Korean / Jae Jung Song -- The coding of spatial relations with human landmarks: from Latin to Romance / Silvia Luraghi -- A survey of the origins of directional case suffixes in European Uralic / Jussi Ylikoski -- Dutch spatial case / Sander Lestrade -- Case on the margins: pragmatics and argument marking in Vaeakau-Taumako and beyond Åshild Næss -- Why should beneficiaries be subjects (or objects)?: affaction and grammatical relations / Fernando Zúñiga.

ISBN

• 9789027206800 (hc : alk. paper)
• 9027206805 (hc : alk. paper)
• 9789027284815 (ebk.)
• 9027284814 (ebk.)

LCCN

^^2011025122

OCLC

731192661

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Harvard Library