Edited by Lars Hellan, Andrej L. Malchukov and Michela Cennamo
In recent years, issues of verbal valency, valency alternations and verb classes have seen a new upsurge of interest from a variety of perspectives. This book comprises articles investigating valency phenomena on a contrastive basis within Romance, Germanic and Slavic, and also in Basque and in the… read more
This volume offers a much needed typological perspective on impersonal constructions, which are here viewed broadly as constructions lacking a referential subject. The contributions to this volume deal with all types of impersonality, namely constructions featuring nonagentive subjects, including… read more
Edited by Lotte Hogeweg, Helen de Hoop and Andrej L. Malchukov
In recent years, we have witnessed, on the one hand, an increased interest in cross-linguistic data in formal semantic studies, and, on the other hand, an increased concern for semantic issues in language typology. However, only few studies combine semantic and typological research for a particular… read more
Edited by Leonid Kulikov, Andrej L. Malchukov and 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… read more
The present short discussion piece presents my personal view of the studies of the topics related to the notion of subject, oblique subject and non-canonical subject marking over the last years. The presentation is of course subjective insofar as it reflects my range of interests in this field.… read more
The article discusses different types of applicative polysemy, focusing on cases of voice ambivalence, that is cases when the same valency marker performs different functions, depending on the semantic and syntactic properties of the verb stem to which it applies (in particular whether the verb is… read more
Following up on (Malchukov, Haspelmath & Comrie 2010), the paper provides a description of the lexical variation in the domain of ditransitive constructions. It has been shown that the variation is not random, but there are cross-linguistically valid preferences of certain verb… read more
The paper deals with insubordination phenomena in Siberian languages, focusing on Tungusic and Paleosiberian languages. It shows that Siberian languages, both Transeurasian/Macroaltaic and Paleosiberian, share a tendency to renew the finite verb forms through forms of nonfinite origin. This… read more
The present article proposes a semantic map for the domain of impersonal constructions. Following Keenan, we assume that different varieties of impersonal constructions register loss of the functional subject properties (such as definiteness, topicality and agentivity). It is argued that different… read more
Agreement in Ket involves multiple techniques of verb-internal subject-object marking with intransitive subject (S) markers aligning in various ways with the transitive subject (A) or transitive object (P) markers. This article examines verbs where the S appears in slots normally reserved for P… read more
In this paper I propose a general approach to the study of constraints on cooccurrence of grammatical categories and present one case study of a functionally infelicitous combination from the domain of TAM categories, the present perfective. It is argued that constraints on co-occurrence of… read more
