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Edited by Alena Witzlack-Makarevich and Balthasar Bickel
[Typological Studies in Language 123] 2019
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Argument selectors

A new perspective on grammatical relations. An introduction

 | The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Published online: 5 March 2019
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https://doi.org/10.1075/tsl.123.01wit
Abstract
This article opens a volume of detailed descriptions of grammatical relations in thirteen languages. It begins by outlining new developments in the research on grammatical relations in the recent years. It then introduces the framework for studying and describing grammatical relations developed in Bickel (2010b) and Witzlack-Makarevich (2011). This framework served as a guideline to the contributors of the present volume in preparing individual accounts. I first present the various properties of arguments, which are understood as compound categories made up of both generalized semantic roles S, A, P, T, and G, as well as of their lexical and referential specifications. I then proceed to various conditions on grammatical relations and, finally, introduce the concept of argument selectors and illustrate their common types with examples from the languages of the present volume, as well as from other languages.
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Grammatical relations: A brief history of research
  • 3.Arguments
    • 3.1Arguments vs. adjuncts
    • 3.2Generalized semantic roles
    • 3.3Predicate classes
    • 3.4Referential specifications of arguments
  • 4.Clause-level conditions
  • 5.Argument selectors
    • 5.1Argument marking
    • 5.2Phrase structure
    • 5.3Biclausal argument selectors
      • 5.3.1Argument selectors with control and raising verbs
      • 5.3.2Argument selectors with other types of clause combining
      • 5.3.3Relativization site as an argument selector
    • 5.4Diathesis alternation
    • 5.5Other argument selectors
  • 6.Conclusion
  • Appendix: Questionnaire
  • Notes
  • References
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