In:Case, Valency and Transitivity
Edited by Leonid Kulikov, Andrej L. Malchukov and Peter de Swart
[Studies in Language Companion Series 77] 2006
► pp. v–vi
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Published online: 15 November 2006
https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.77.toc
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Table of contents
Introduction
Part I. Morphological case1
Syntactic vs. morphological case: Implications for morphosyntax
Case systems in a diachronic perspective: A typological sketch
Emergence of morphological cases in South Mande: From the amorphous type to inflectional?
Issues of morphological ergativity in the Tsimshian languages: Agreement, determiners and the reconstruction of case
Direction marking and case in Menominee
Part II. Case-marking and transitivity113
A. Syntax of case113
Bare and prepositional differential case marking: The exotic case of German (and Icelandic) among all of Germanic
Control infinitives and case in Germanic: ‘Performance error’ or marginally acceptable constructions?
Experiencer coding in Nakh-Daghestanian
‘Argument sharing’ in Oriya serial verb constructions
B. Case interpretation223
Two approaches to specificity
Case markedness
Incremental distinguishability of subject and object
C. Case and the typology of transitivity289
The woman showed the baby to her sister: On resolving humanness-driven ambiguity in ditransitives
Case semantics and the agent-patient opposition
Transitivity parameters and transitivity alternations: Constraining co-variation
Transitivity in Songhay
Part III. Transitivity and valency change373
Syntactic valence, information structure, and passive constructions in Kaqchikel
A very active passive: Functional similarities between passive and causative in Balkar
Case marking, possession and syntactic hierarchies in Khakas causative constructions in comparison with other Turkic languages
Transitivity increase markers interacting with verbs semantics: Evidence from Finno-Ugric languages
Extraversive transitivization in Yucatec Maya and the nature of the applicative
Language Index
Subject Index
