Fernando Zúñiga
List of John Benjamins publications in which Fernando Zúñiga is involved.
Book series
ISSN 0167-7373
Typological Hierarchies in Synchrony and Diachrony
Edited by Sonia Cristofaro and Fernando Zúñiga
Typological hierarchies are widely perceived as one of the most important results of research on language universals and linguistic diversity. Explanations for typological hierarchies, however, are usually based on the synchronic properties of the patterns described by individual hierarchies, not… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 121] 2018. vi, 434 pp.
Advances in Research on Semantic Roles
Edited by Seppo Kittilä and Fernando Zúñiga
Especially in functional-typological linguistics, semantic roles have been studied thoroughly, because they constitute a good starting point for any study on argument marking due to their semantically defined nature. However, the very concept of semantic roles is far from being without problems,… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 88] 2016. v, 219 pp.
Word Formation in South American Languages
Edited by Swintha Danielsen, Katja Hannss and Fernando Zúñiga
This volume focuses on word formation processes in smaller and so far underrepresented indigenous languages of South America. The data for the analyses have been mainly collected in the field by the authors. The several language families described here, among them Arawakan, Takanan, and Guaycuruan,… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 163] 2014. v, 228 pp.
Advances in research on semantic roles
Edited by Seppo Kittilä and Fernando Zúñiga
Special issue of Studies in Language 38:3 (2014) v, 211 pp.
Benefactives and Malefactives: Typological perspectives and case studies
Edited by Fernando Zúñiga and Seppo Kittilä
Benefactives are constructions used to express that a state of affairs holds to someone’s advantage. The same construction sometimes also serves as a malefactive, whose meanings are generally not a simple mirror image of the benefactive. Benefactive constructions cover a wide range of phenomena:… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 92] 2010. x, 440 pp.
Deixis and Alignment: Inverse systems in indigenous languages of the Americas
Fernando Zúñiga
This book proposes a notion of inverse that differs from two widespread positions found in descriptive and typological studies (one of them restrictive and structure-oriented, the other broad and function-centered). This third stance put forward here takes both grammar and pragmatic functions into… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 70] 2006. xii, 309 pp.
2021 Chapter 19. Antipassivization in Basque revisited Antipassive: Typology, diachrony, and related constructions, Janic, Katarzyna and Alena Witzlack-Makarevich (eds.), pp. 621–640 | Chapter
In this paper, we explore three phenomena that have been considered to be antipassives in Basque linguistics. First, we briefly review “ergative displacement” (Laka 1988), related to antipassives as mentioned by Heath (1976). This is not a bona fide instance of the antipassive, since the… read more
2019 Grammatical relations in Mapudungun Argument Selectors: A new perspective on grammatical relations, Witzlack-Makarevich, Alena and Balthasar Bickel (eds.), pp. 39–67 | Chapter
This article presents the grammatical relations (GRs) of Central Mapudungun(unclassified, Chile and Argentina) as explored in terms of argument selectionas instantiated by different constructions (i.e., the coding and behavioral properties usually discussed in the literature on alignment). The… read more
2019 Grammatical relations in Basque Argument Selectors: A new perspective on grammatical relations, Witzlack-Makarevich, Alena and Balthasar Bickel (eds.), pp. 185–211 | Chapter
This article presents the grammatical relations (GRs) of Standard Basque (isolate, Spain and France) as explored in terms of argument selection as instantiated by different constructions (i.e., the coding and behavioral properties usually discussed in the literature on alignment). The language… read more
2018 Synchronic vs. diachronic approaches to typological hierarchies Typological Hierarchies in Synchrony and Diachrony, Cristofaro, Sonia and Fernando Zúñiga (eds.), pp. 3–28 | Chapter
2016 Recent developments and open questions in the field of semantic roles Advances in Research on Semantic Roles, Kittilä, Seppo and Fernando Zúñiga (eds.), pp. 1–26 | Article
This introductory chapter briefly introduces a few milestones in the voluminous previous literature on semantic roles, and charts the territory in which the chapters of this volume aim to make a contribution. This territory is characterized by fairly disparate conceptualizations of semantic roles… read more
2016 Benefaction proper and surrogation Advances in Research on Semantic Roles, Kittilä, Seppo and Fernando Zúñiga (eds.), pp. 109–131 | Article
The semantic role of beneficiary is usually conceptualized in very general terms, typically without an intensional definition of what can constitute a benefit in the particular construction under study. Among those accounts that have proposed to discuss benefaction as related to the notion(s) of… read more
2015 Temperature terms in Mapudungun The Linguistics of Temperature, Koptjevskaja-Tamm, Maria (ed.), pp. 776–791 | Article
Mapudungun (unclassified) is spoken in south-central Chile and southwestern Argentina at different altitudes in climates ranging from tundra and subalpine to Mediterranean. This paper surveys the basic semantics and morphosyntax of nine temperature terms, of which wütre ‘cold’, füshkü ‘cool’, eñum… read more
2014 Introduction and acknowledgments Word Formation in South American Languages, Danielsen, Swintha, Katja Hannss and Fernando Zúñiga (eds.), pp. 1–10 | Article
The term ‘word formation’ is ambiguous in modern linguistics. In one usage of the term, it is equivalent to ‘morphology’ and refers to matters such as affixation and reduplication as used in the creation of words. In the more widely accepted sense of the term, word formation refers to the creation… read more
2014 Recent developments and open questions in the field of semantic roles Advances in research on semantic roles, Kittilä, Seppo and Fernando Zúñiga (eds.), pp. 437–462 | Article
This introductory chapter briefly introduces a few milestones in the voluminous previous literature on semantic roles, and charts the territory in which the papers of this volume aim to make a contribution. This territory is characterized by fairly disparate conceptualizations of semantic roles… read more
2014 Nominal compounds in Mapudungun Word Formation in South American Languages, Danielsen, Swintha, Katja Hannss and Fernando Zúñiga (eds.), pp. 11–31 | Article
It is perhaps unsurprising that the rich agglutinative-polysynthetic verb morphology of Mapudungun has drawn most attention in linguistic studies. So far unnoticed in the literature are Mapudungun complex noun phrases, which show a puzzling distribution in terms of the internal structure they… read more
2014 Benefaction proper and surrogation Advances in research on semantic roles, Kittilä, Seppo and Fernando Zúñiga (eds.), pp. 543–565 | Article
The semantic role of beneficiary is usually conceptualized in very general terms, typically without an intensive definition of what can constitute a benefit in the particular construction under study. Among those accounts that have proposed to discuss benefaction as related to the notion(s) of… read more
2011 Why should beneficiaries be subjects (or objects)? Affaction and grammatical relations Case, Animacy and Semantic Roles, Kittilä, Seppo, Katja Västi and Jussi Ylikoski (eds.), pp. 329–348 | Article
The present paper proposes a semantico-pragmatic representation of benefactive situations according to which beneficiaries are affected participants that are peripheral with respect to an overtly expressed causing subevent but core participants with respect to a covert resulting subevent. Such a… read more
2010 Introduction: Benefaction and malefaction from a cross-linguistic perspective Benefactives and Malefactives: Typological perspectives and case studies, Zúñiga, Fernando and Seppo Kittilä (eds.), pp. 1–28 | Article
2010 Benefactive and malefactive applicativization in Mapudungun Benefactives and Malefactives: Typological perspectives and case studies, Zúñiga, Fernando and Seppo Kittilä (eds.), pp. 203–218 | Article
This paper argues that two productive applicatives in Mapudungun, viz. -(l)el and -ñma, can be labeled benefactive and malefactive respectively, but only in a superficially impressionistic way. Based on a detailed survey of the literature on the language, as well as on synchronic evidence and some… read more
2009 Review of Malchukov & Spencer (2009): The Oxford Handbook of Case Studies in Language 33:4, pp. 1019–1025 | Review
